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NASA library closure in Maryland the latest in Trump cuts to space research
By Cody Boteler, 1/1/2026 3:51 p.m. ESTchat_bubble3
Astronomy & Space category imageThe Trump administration will close NASA’s largest research library, located at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, this week.
The library houses tens of thousands of books and documents, including journals and old articles that have not been digitized, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the facility’s Friday closure.
In-person library services were already paused, according to the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association, or GESTA, the union for employees at the facility. As of Dec. 9, employees were no longer allowed to check out books.
The union said in an update on its blog that library staff are working on a 60-day review of the collection and have been reportedly been given permission to save the most rare 10%-15% of it, with the remainder to be picked up by the General Services Administration. According to The Times, the federal government will store some of the collection in warehouses, and trash the rest.
The union wrote that employees were told that physical collaboration spaces in the library would close as of Jan. 2, and some “limited” digital subscriptions will remain.
NASA officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
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Shuttering the library is just the latest of sudden building closures at the Goddard campus, according to GESTA. The union has detailed multiple laboratory and office building closures, and said some employees and contractors were called in to help vacate buildings during the government shutdown.
Goddard is “NASA’s premiere space flight complex and home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe,” according to its website.
The “unplanned” and “hasty” moves will “result in the loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded laboratory facilities, including sophisticated and high-value equipment that will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace,” union officials wrote.
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