About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration's deferred resignation program, the agency disclosed.

Roughly 20% of the workforce at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is set to depart the agency, a spokesperson confirmed Friday, marking a significant shift as the space agency grapples with restructuring under the Trump administration’s broader push to reduce the size of the federal government.

More than 200 current and former NASA employees have signed an open letter known as the Voyager Declaration pushing back on "harmful" proposed cuts.

Several hundred current and former NASA employees, including at least four retired astronauts, backed a letter that opposes the Trump administration's significant cuts to the federal space agency. The letter,

NASA faces a proposed $6 billion agency-wide funding cut by the Trump administration, including a 47% reduction of science missions and activities.

Nearly 300 current and former NASA employees — including astronauts, engineers and scientists — have signed the "Voyager Declaration," a formal statement raising alarm over recent actions and steep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment, health care, and more. Several hundred staffers at the National Institutes of Health,

President Trump’s proposed budget cuts NASA’s funding by six billion dollars and the agency’s science funding by half. Congress could restore some of those funds, and that’s good news for projects going on at the Michoud plant in New Orleans East.