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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off 325 more workers


NASA's JPL is having around round of layoffs due to budget constraints.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's research center responsible for robotic space missions, will lay off more workers before the year ends due to budget constraints. JPL Director Laurie Leshin has announced in a memo addressed to employees that the reduction will affect 325 people, or about five percent of its whole workforce. The main reason why the lab had to implement those measures was because the Mars Sample Return Program was allocated a much smaller budget than it needed.

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