Nearly 3k people are leaving NASA, and this director is one of them
9 months ago
- #Space Exploration
- #NASA
- #Leadership Change
- Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will leave her post on August 1.
- Goddard is NASA's largest field center, with over 8,000 employees and a $4.7 billion budget, managing key telescopes like James Webb and Hubble.
- Cynthia Simmons, Goddard's deputy director, will serve as acting chief following Lystrup's departure.
- Lystrup joined NASA from Ball Aerospace, with a background in astrophysics and planetary astronomy.
- Her departure follows an open letter ('The Voyager Declaration') criticizing recent NASA policies for wasting resources and compromising safety.