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NASA to lay off more than 500 employees
(www.nasa.gov)
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So, hows privatizing the space sector going for you, America? Made any amazing scientific leaps lately?
mass layoffs and piss-leaking tourist shuttles.
(This is not me shitting on the amazing accomplishments of NASA scientists, but rather the gutting and selling off of NASA to the private sector and making their scientists jobs way harder than they need to be.)
Well JPL has always been this way but go off. This is essentially punishment for their (mis)handling of the Psyche mission and other recent bureaucratic fuck ups. Obviously since those who did the fucking up are in charge of budget allocation, the workers take the brunt of it but its not as gloom and doom as it seems.
Really they should just cancel SLS and nationalize SpaceX but Elon would have to do something unforgivable for them to actually do it.
You mean like blocking Ukraine from using its satellites when Putin tells him to?
They should’ve seized it the next day.