Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt for voluntary buyouts

by Jeff FoustJuly 26, 2025July 26, 2025

A group protested proposed NASA budget cuts and workforce reductions outside NASA Headquarters June 30.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees, accounting for about one fifth of the agency’s workforce, have chosen to leave the agency through various voluntary processes

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The... More by Jeff Foust