On Episode 185 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Josh Dinner to discuss NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center future, given it is in the administration's crosshairs.
With cuts to their budget and staffing beginning under Elon Musk's DOGE, it has taken a different form with the government shutdown. Employees furloughed or retired from critical programs, laboratories shuttered, and entire facilities gutted — all without the approval of Congress. By the time the shutdown is over, NASA's primary research center — and the one most responsible for what many are now calling "the C-word," climate science — will be a shell of its former self. Dinner recently completed a months-long investigative report.
