NASA Deploys Security Guards at Tense Staff Event as Gutting Looms

Morale at NASA is bottoming out as the Trump administration threatens to cut budgets. Future cullings still loom on the horizon, with disgusted employees calling the agency's new management out for "targeted" and "cruel" layoffs last month. Earlier this month, acting administrator Janet Petro revealed that work at some regional offices could soon be consolidated, hinting at the possibility of thousands of livelihoods being uprooted. This week, the Trump administration canceled the lease at its top climate monitoring lab at Columbia University in New York City, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), as the result of devastating cuts carried out by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. The gloomy atmosphere made for a "tense" meeting during a Monday town hall at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, according to the well-sourced former insider Keith Cowing, who now blogs at NASA Watch, with security guards overseeing the proceedings in the back of the ove ... Read full article.