Space-X boss tells NASA boss to shed 1,000 jobs - NASA’s explained files - 5.5% of the workforce, just 0.5% of the total NASA budget
From here:
NASA’s Unexpected Workforce Changes: Federal Budget and Politics at Play | Republican News
“Key Takeaways
The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut NASA’s workforce by 10%, impacting roughly 1,800 employees.
This reduction is part of a larger federal initiative aimed at downsizing to improve efficiency and cut spending.
The layoffs may delay critical missions, such as the Artemis moon landing mission set for 2027.
The cutbacks have drawn criticism from labur unions and advocacy groups who deem them politically motivated.
There is concern about potential “brain drain” and destabilization of local economies around NASA centers.
The article is pro-NASA, which is understandable given NASA’s heroic performance over decades.
There is no “spin” around conflict of interest between Elon Musk’s Space-X, which is interesting.
Here’s some background context, per Brave AI:
“PayScale reports that the average salary for NASA employees is $103,050 per year.”
“NASA offers a comprehensive benefits package to its employees, which includes health, dental, vision, and life insurance programs, as well as flexible spending accounts.”
“NASA has a diverse workforce of just under 18,000 civil servants. This figure includes both direct employees and those working with NASA through various partnerships and contracts.”
“For the fiscal year 2025, the White House proposed a budget of $25.4 billion, a modest increase from the previous year.”
Cutting 1,000 jobs out of 18,000 is a reduction of 5.5% not 10%. Savings will be $100,000 salary plus around $30,000 (?) in benefits (no mention of the value of a pension), so around £130 million out of a budget of $25.4 billion - just 0.5%.
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I was wondering whether the $70M/day going into NASA would be audited. This government agency seems to produce nothing but sci-fi stories and promises feeding the cosmology and cosmogony stories we have been brainwashed with since five.
Yes, any cuts will be used as yet another excuse for not "going to the moon." They haven't for the past 60 years ostensibly because, as their spokesman said, they have "lost and destroyed telemetry data and it would be too painful to recreate it."
The main reason they have not gone back is because space travel is impossible. It would break natural laws that demand that our atmospheric pressure cannot exist without an impenetrable barrier separating it from a supposed "space vacuum."
NASA's fraud and deception tell us they should not be trusted any more than any other entrenched gov agency.
Just like with COVID and other gov frauds, it is very difficult to get beyond the Google algorithms that ridicule any criticism of the approved cosmology/cosmogony gov narrative.
Here are sources that will permit you to learn what you do not know on this subject.
https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/hard-to-find-links-revealing-the-alarming-logical-and-scientific-reasons-to-question-modern-cosmology-and-space-travel
NASA not a space agency.