"Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland — the nerve center for missions like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes — as a dozen buildings are being #emptied and padlocked during the federal #shutdown, with very little notice. Furloughed employees were given just days to temporarily return to work and help #empty entire buildings of highly specialized equipment. #NASA managers wrote that equipment not moved in time — including one-of-a-kind hardware — could be thrown away or #donated."
NASA quietly gutting the home of Hubble and Webb, « strategically » closing buildings https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/science/nasa-goddard-building-closures-government-shutdown
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

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