WASHINGTON — Nasa's acting administrator Janet Petro said on Wednesday (Feb 12) that Elon Musk's government efficiency panel planned to examine the space agency's spending, and noted hundreds of agency employees had accepted a government buyout proposal. 'We are going to have DOGE come.
Director of Nasa's John F. Kennedy Space Center Janet Petro speaks ahead of the Crew-7 mission launch to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US Aug 20, 2023.
Asked how many Nasa employees accepted the Trump administration's buyout plan, Petro said it was "hundreds." SpaceX has roughly US$15 billion in contracts with Nasa, primarily for sending astronauts to and from the International Space Station and to land humans on the moon using the company's Starship vehicle.
A small group of Trump administration officials have already begun to examine Nasa's various science and space mission programmes that make up the agency's roughly US$24 billion annual budget, while Petro has been tasked with executing Trump's flurry of executive orders aimed at eliminating government diversity programmes.
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