It was not immediately clear what changed.

Summary

The White House unexpectedly decided not to terminate over 1,000 probationary NASA employees on Tuesday, despite similar cuts at other federal agencies.

NASA had requested exemptions, but it’s unclear why the reprieve was granted. Some speculate that Jared Isaacman, Trump’s nominee to lead NASA, may have intervened.

While this decision spares employees for now, the administration is still considering significant workforce reductions in the coming months.

NASA field centers have been instructed to prepare for possible layoffs, though final decisions may require congressional approval.

  • DancingBear
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    6 hours ago

    Is it worse to go sideways into the atmosphere or straight down?

    (Assuming you had the however many years of oxygen with you to make the journey, etc.)

    I assume it would be better to just stay on the station and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises and I bet you get random eclipses too

    Just asking because… if I have the oxygen maybe I could use it to lower my velocity of orbit or whatever speed that high is called until I fall straight down.

    I don’t know how velocity works if I was going sideways at 17,000 mph and I sprayed the oxygen in front of me I would probably start to fall faster immediately that’s weird gravity and shit, I don’t know the correlation between gravity and speed

    10 mph per second … per second? It accelerates so maybe close enough