Like a lot of the rest of the federal government right now, NASA is reeling during the first turbulent days of the Trump administration.
The last two weeks have brought a change in leadership in the form of interim administrator Janet Petro, whose ascension was a surprise. Her first act was to tell agency employees to remove diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility contracts and to “report” on anyone who did not carry out this order. Soon, civil servants began receiving emails from the US Office of Personnel Management that some perceived as an effort to push them to resign.
Then there are the actions of SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
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