Die NASA hat 4.000 Mitarbeiter gekürzt. Wohin werden sie gehen?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-budget-cuts-trump-staff
Die NASA hat 4.000 Mitarbeiter gekürzt. Wohin werden sie gehen?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/nasa-budget-cuts-trump-staff
19 Kommentare
To the iPhone factories or the fields, obviously!
A lot of them are opting to take retirement
Needless to say, they are among the most experienced people in NASA.
Makes it harder for NASA to maintain effective oversight, or whatever that means anymore, over the billions that will be forked over to private ~~donors~~ industry
Not sure. Space Mountain is already packed full of ‚em.
The good ones will get gobbled up by Amentum and other contractors.
Retire or foreign governments that are interested in progress. We are quickly heading towards 3rd world in technology and development.
A bunch I know are going to New Space and related industries. Some are starting consulting companies. Very few are actually retiring.
If you find out let me know. Still trying to figure that out.
Weird Donald achieved a reversed Operation Paperclip. It’s almost like he’s working against american people.
The obvious answer is that a lot of them will jump to private space, accelerating a trend that has been going on for about 10 years at this point. What isn’t often said is that many of the private space companies are owned by the same feudal billionaires that are supporting, either directly or indirectly, the Project 2025 coup that is dismantling NASA in the first place. They essentially want their own private fiefdom in space. Dismantling the public space agency allows them to poach top talent, while at the same time freeing up government money so they can get awarded federal contracts to further grow their dominion. The long play is ownership of real estate on-orbit and off-planet that is 100% under their control. Private property on the moon.
Probably other countries. New Zealand and Canada have actively been recruiting the newly-ashcanned American brain trust.
Can we say they will probably go get jobs at commercial space companies or leave the US for greener pastures.
We’re about to lose most of our best and brightest. They’re either not being replaced or being replaced with incompetent Trump sycophants and religious zealots. We’re apparently just going to lie or pray our way through everything now.
Chinas winning strategy
Step 1: do nothing
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: WIN!
The shit party in charge wants to privatize nasa. They will keep eroding it.
America: We want to space race with China.
Also America: Why are we losing space race with China?
Europe and Asia will be the beneficiary of these layoffs.
Probably overseas and I don’t fucking blame them.
People seem to forget that most of those people are NOT scientists or engineers.
For example here’s [Jennifer Mason](https://www.nasa.gov/general/celebrating-pride-meet-jennifer-mason/), the woman interviewed for this article. I dare someone to prove she’s an important member of NASA.
This next space race is going to be between private American space companies and the Chinese government. NASA had incredible achievements but its budget is controlled by Congress and hostage to whatever government thinks space is not important. Tons of red tape, historically they had to appease congressmen by using contractors that build stuff in their states to get stuff approved, which drove costs too. Also, I personally think they spent a lot of time and resources on Earth climate science etc that they could’ve spent for the exploration of space.
I think cutting NASA loose and deregulating space is the next step forward. We’re beyond the time that exploring our solar system would be done just for the sake of doing it and for the advancement of science and technology. There’s money to be made, resources to be exploited, new settlements to be built to make sure humanity is preserved from any future catastrophes that could occur on Earth.
In the last 20 years SpaceX has done more for space exploration than NASA has. One can argue that by proving that accessing space can be relatively affordable (compared to previous launch costs) and scalable, they have democratized space access.
I guess we’ll see how it goes but I think it’s going to be better in the long run.