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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."
That story chronicles her journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in the Caribbeanand years living unhoused, to pursuing her education and rising to become a NASA intern, which ultimately led to working at the space agency full-time. Ferreira left Hunter and began taking remote courses at Arizona State University (ASU) while recovering, and would eventually earn her Bachelor's degree in astronomy and planetary sciences. Ferreira was within her provisional employee period at NASA — a group targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spearheaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to downsize the federal workforce — but was not told that was the reason she was let go.
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