SLS workforce
Employees gather in front of the first Space Launch System core stage as it is rolled out in January 2020. A NASA safety panel recommends the agency develop a strategic plan for guiding the future size and composition of its workforce.

As NASA’s management of its human spaceflight programs evolves to incorporate greater roles for companies, the agency needs to take a strategic look at its workforce and infrastructure requirements, a safety panel advised.

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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...