The White House is believed to have made a last-minute decision to pause mass firings at NASA after fears that up to 10 percent of its 18,000 federal staff were to be let go by the end of Tuesday.
Hundreds of space agency employees were braced Tuesday as reports loomed of mass layoffs for probationary staff as Donald Trump attempts to trim the federal workforce and slash trillions from government spending through Elon Musk-lead Department of Government Efficiency.
