NASA to Divest, Demolish Buildings at Maryland’s Goddard Center

NASA is planning to divest or demolish nearly half of its footprint at the Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, after President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce led to a mass employee exodus, according to an email seen by Bloomberg News.

One of NASA’s premier science centers, Goddard operates the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope and works on science missions including ones that explore the solar system, study Mars’ atmosphere and monitor space weather.

Goddard was the NASA center hit the hardest by the Trump’s administration deferred resignation programs, which caused around 30% of its employees to ...