You can add Another name for thousands of employees in which NASA has been offered a space agency for a 25 % budget cut by the Trump administration.
On Monday, NASA announced that the Mickenzie Lystrop would leave its post as director of the Goddess Space Flight Center on Friday, August 1st. Lystrop has received a high job in Godard since April 2023, with more than 8,000 government employees and contractor employees monitoring staff and about $ 77 billion last year.
These figures make Goddard the largest of NASA’s 10 field centers, primarily dedicated to the scientific research and development of robotic space missions, comparing NASA’s human space flight centers in Texas, Florida and Alabama. Goodard officials manage the James Web and Hubble Telescopes in space, and Goddard Engineers are collecting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is another flagship observatory schedule for launch at the end of next year.
“We have been grateful to Mackenzie for his leadership in NASA Goddard for more than two years, including his work for Explorer, Scientists and Engineers, for more than two years.”
Goodard’s deputy director, Cynthia Siemens, will take over as acting chief at the space center. Siemens started working in Godard 25 years ago as a contract engineer.
NASA came from Lystrip Ball Aerospace, which is now part of the BAE system, where it managed the company’s work on civilian space projects for NASA and other federal agencies. Before joining the ball aerospace, Lystrip received a doctorate from University College London at Astro Physics and researched a planet astronomer.
Mackenie Little up in a panel discussion with agency Center directors at the 2024 Artemis Suppliers Conference in Washington, DC.Courtesy Joel Kooski/NASA
Formal disagreement
The departure of Lystrop from Godard was announced a few hours after issuing an open letter to NASA’s Interim Administrator, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, which was signed by hundreds of current and former agency employees. The letter, titled “The Viger Declaration”, has been identified as the signators “recent policies that have been threatened with wasting public resources, compromising human security, weakening national security and threatening to harm the basic NASA mission.”
The letter states that “major programming shifts in NASA should be implemented with a strategy so that the risks can be carefully managed.” “Instead, in the last six months, sharp and useless changes have been seen, which has overlooked our mission and has had devastating impact on NASA’s workforce. When our leadership prefers political pace over human safety, scientific development, and effective use of public resources, we are forced to talk.
The letter has been developed on similar documents written by employees protesting in the National Institute of Health and Environmental Protection Agency, protests by employees protesting in policy and policy changes.
