‘Now it’s time to turn the baton over to others. I hope there’s somebody else to grab that baton.’
In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […]
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Published by SpaceNews on 02/06/2026
