NASA is planning to divest or demolish nearly half of its Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland after a mass employee exodus tied to President Trump’s push to shrink the federal workforce, according to an internal email seen by Bloomberg.
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The plan would remove nearly half of Goddard’s physical footprint, a material change to infrastructure at a major science and mission-support center that has prompted calls to pause closures over potential impacts to programs such as the Roman Space Telescope (see concerns about a pause to planned closures and mission risk).
The footprint reduction follows a broader mass exodus and staffing shifts across NASA driven by administration headcount policies; context on agency talent losses and where departing staff may relocate is available in reporting on the mass exodus and workforce redistribution.
This action sits alongside other center-level personnel cuts — including layoffs at JPL and program staff dismissals at Marshall — underscoring a wider contraction in NASA technical capacity that could affect program continuity and contractor demand (JPL cuts ~550 jobs and Marshall ISS staff reductions).
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• Sana Pashankar