NASA closes offices, lays off staff, prepares for larger workforce reductions

smb06 · 2025-03-10T19:56:11 1741636571

I couldn’t think of an agency that has delivered a better ROI than NASA.

0cf8612b2e1e · 2025-03-10T20:13:13 1741637593

Not sure who gets ultimate credit for the internet NSF/CERN/DARPA, but that has to be a contender for the best return, right?

Also impossible to measure public health research/initiatives: polio, measles, pasteurization, whatever ended up killing Thomas Midgley, etc.

huang_chung · 2025-03-10T20:01:10 1741636870

Total clickbait after you read details:

> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!

No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.

consumer451 · 2025-03-10T20:08:27 1741637307

> Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist

How are those 2 offices "DEI architects?"

huang_chung · 2025-03-10T20:12:59 1741637579

> middle managers with no direct reports

No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.

consumer451 · 2025-03-17T03:35:28 1742182528

I find it extremely interesting that tech MAGA doesn't consider science to be important.