NASA’s JPL To Cut Workforce By 8%

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Faced with budget uncertainties and an ongoing review of NASA’s flagship Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—the agency’s largest contractor—plans to cut about 530 staff positions, or about 8% of its workforce, as well as about 40 contractor jobs. “We are now in a...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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