NASA Just Fired Its Chief Scientist, Won’t Hire Another One

NASA canceled the main science offices – the chief scientist and its office – according to an internal email message obtained by Intuition.

The news comes after less than a week Art Technica She stated that the Trump administration is expected to reduce the science agency’s budget by up to 50 percent, “occurred at the level of extinction of space science and exploration in the United States,” said the president of the Planetary Association for Space Policy Casey Dryer Publishing.

Now that the chief scientist Catherine Calvin has been abandoned, the future of space science in the country is not always as it was.

In the email, Janet Petro, NASA’s representative director, said that the cuts were in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at reducing budgets through departments.

Regardless of the office of the chief scientist, the Diversity, Equity, Integration Office has been reduced and accessible to the NASA office, which affects about 20 people, for each person Intuition.

A NASA chief office was created to ensure that the agency’s scientific endeavors “are in line with the scientific goals of the administration and fulfill them,” according to the agency’s website.

The latest news can be a harbinger of what is still in the NASA store. Petro said that the agency only started “its gradual approach to reducing strength.”

The agency was already the goal of the discounts. Soon after the emergence of reports, the so -called government efficiency in Elon Musk was reducing more than 1,000 NASA employees last month, the affected workers were rescued as part of a decision at the last chaotic minute.

The founder of the billionaire Technology – and Spacex Space Tourist – seems to be Jarid Ishaqan, who was widely expected the constitutional oath as an upcoming official in NASA, has been closed from the ongoing talks, with Tweet that he was simply “a modest candidate abroad, hoping to have an opportunity to contribute.”

Now that the main scientific figures have been eliminated, scientists are concerned that the Trump administration is making irreversible changes that can undermine the tasks of the basic agency.

“Small NASA, but it can be said that it is the most legendary and popular agency worldwide in American history,” Tweet Smithsonian Astronomical Physics on the Trrimup grant. “It has begun to overcome it, and the upcoming discounts are so huge that we will not get to know them within a year.”

He added in a follow -up: “I am concerned that, in the absence of a strong leadership, there is a theory of destruction, but there is no plan for creation.” “It is difficult to build something wonderful of a pile of ash and knees. They will not return to the people you lose.”

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