Under Trump, NASA Meetings Are On Hold And Missions Are Up In The Air

NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce and carries out its tasks with the kind of precision required to hurl humans into orbit, drive rovers on Mars or build telescopes that can see nearly to the dawn of time.

But at the moment, NASA employees and contractors don’t know what tomorrow will bring — or even if they’ll have jobs. With President Donald Trump’s return to power and the billionaire space entrepreneur Elon Musk patrolling government agencies, the world’s premier space agency has entered a murky realm.

In the days ahead, the agency’s expensive moon rocket, the Space Launch System, could be shelved. NASA’s ambitious plan to send astronauts back to the moon on multiple missions could be scaled back if Trump and Musk push for a rapid pivot to Mars. Even the long-term location of NASA headquarters is up in the air: The agency’s lease in Washington expires in three years, and the headquarters could soon be relocated, possibly to Florida or Texas.

By Thursday, DOGE had arrived on-site at NASA.

“We anticipate that they will start reviewing our contracts to find efficiencies,” NASA acting administrator Janet Petro wrote in a message sent to employees late Friday and obtained by The Washington Post.

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