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NASA Begins Mass Firings ahead of Trump Team’s Deadline (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/politics

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[–] BevelGear 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The move makes NASA the first agency under the current Trump administration to pre-emptively fire career employees[...]

I thought they were better than this. I no longer want to be affiliated with them now. What a shame.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 11 points 3 weeks ago

I hesitate to badmouth the agency because it has so many sincere talented people working there, but also, NASA management as a whole has been dogshit since about the 1980s. Like real dogshit, "should be in prison" type of thing. Read about the Challenger disaster investigations, things like people warning that the launch was unsafe and shouldn't continue, and being told to "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat."