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The director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center announced her resignation Monday, marking yet another high-profile departure as questions loom about the agency’s budget and future.

Makenzie Lystrup, who has served as director of the center in Maryland since April 2023, will leave the agency on Aug. 1, according to a NASA statement.

Lystrup’s resignation comes less than two months after Laurie Leshin stepped down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

...more than 280 current and former NASA employees signed a letter to Sean Duffy, NASA’s interim administrator, stating that the Trump administration’s recent policies “have or threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, weaken national security, and undermine the core NASA mission.”

The agency did not provide a reason for Lystrup’s resignation.

NASA said Monday that Cynthia Simmons, Goddard's deputy director, will take over as acting center director in August.

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[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Eh, she's been shopping around for a bit. She came in before Trump even got here and has been trying to dismantle Goddards ability to build satellites. Shes been deeply unpopular ever since Dennis left. The guy after him didnt make nearly as much noise, though he wasn't exactly great.