The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.

Nearly 300 past and present NASA employees have signed a letter urging the space agency’s interim chief to resist the Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts.

A letter released Monday from more than 150 NASA employees urged agency officials not to make deep budgetary cuts proposed by the White House, saying they would have “dire” consequences. “We are ...

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...