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The recent staff reduction at NASA includes the elimination of the Chief Scientist position and the NASA Office of Technology, Strategy and Policy, resulting in a total of 23 job losses. Additionally, 900 employees have opted for the "deferred resignation" program, and approximately 1,000 probationary employees are expected to be terminated, leading to an overall reduction of about 10% of the workforce. This restructuring raises questions about the potential transfer of NASA activities to SpaceX, particularly concerning future missions such as lunar exploration.

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As a start, the Chief Scientist and her office have been eliminated. Additionally, the NASA Office of Technology, Strategy and Policy has been eliminated. As expected, the DEI program has been shut down. These actions account for 23 employees. Nine hundred employees have taken the "deferred resignation" program. About 1000 probationary employees will probably be fired. All this will result in about a 10% reduction in staff.

see https://spacenews.com/nasa-closes-o...-it-prepares-for-larger-workforce-reductions/ or
https://spacenews.com/tracking-doges-impact-on-space-and-the-federal-workforce/

Thought Bubble: I wonder how much of NASA activities will be transferred to SpaceX?
 
dlu said:
You mean like the moon mission?
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Maybe. While SpaceX has touted a 100 t payload for Starship to a high Earth orbit, it has only tested it with a 20t payload (#7) AFAIK. I read a few critiques of the Starship program and there is some doubt about its payload capacity. We will have to wait and see what it will actually carry.
 
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Writer Robert A. Heinlein, much moreso than Ayn Rand, provided much of the framework for Libertarians. In several "Future History" stories Heinlein imagined benign but ultra-powerful oligarch Delos D. Harriman organizing, but certainly NOT personally financing, the first moon landings.

Gratefull lunar colonists raise statues to the heroic tycoon. If it is any consolation to us mere mortals, Heinlein later transported the aged decrepit Harriman to the Lunar surface to die.

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