一群现任和前任NASA员工联名致信NASA代理局长，对特朗普政府提出的削减NASA预算的计划表示强烈反对。他们认为，这些削减措施将对NASA的任务目标、工作队伍以及国家安全造成灾难性影响，并可能危及未来任务的安全性。信中指出，关闭已运行的航天器或取消正在开发中的项目是不可逆的，这与“哥伦比亚号”事故的教训背道而驰。此次削减预算还影响了其他联邦机构，导致大量联邦雇员失业。

🚀 287名NASA现任及前任员工签署《旅行者宣言》，对特朗普政府削减NASA预算的计划表示担忧和反对。他们认为这些削减措施是“快速且浪费的”，并已对NASA的任务和员工队伍造成了“灾难性影响”。

🚨 削减NASA预算的政策被指责可能浪费公共资源、危及人类安全并削弱国家安全。信中特别提到，这可能“危险地偏离了‘哥伦比亚号’灾难后吸取的教训”，暗示可能重蹈覆辙，影响未来任务的安全性。

🚫 宣言强调，一旦航天器退役或项目被取消，将无法恢复。例如，关闭运行中的航天器是不可逆的，而取消正在开发的项目则会终结下一代关键科学观测的机会，这对科学研究和国家长远发展是巨大的损失。

📉 这些削减是“政府效率部”（DOGE）更大范围削减计划的一部分，该计划已导致NASA三个部门被裁撤，多名员工被解雇。此举并非孤例，美国国家卫生研究院和环境保护局的员工也发布了类似的声明，抗议DOGE的削减。

🛡️ NASA新闻秘书回应称，机构绝不会在安全问题上妥协，任何削减都将经过设计以保护关键安全岗位。然而，员工们对这种承诺的有效性表示怀疑，并敦促代理局长不要执行这些可能损害NASA利益的削减措施。

A group of current and former NASA employees is up in arms about DOGE cuts to the agency's funding.In a letter to NASA's chief, Sean Duffy, the group slammed wasteful changes that undermine NASA's goals.The Trump administration has axed three NASA departments since March and fired several employees.

A group of 287 current and former NASA employees said federal funding cuts will have dire consequences for NASA and the country as a whole.

In a Monday letter titled the "Voyager Declaration," addressed to NASA's interim administrator and US transportation secretary Sean Duffy, the group slammed the Trump administration's recent actions against the space agency.

"The last six months have seen rapid and wasteful changes which have undermined our mission and caused catastrophic impacts on NASA's workforce," the letter said.

The group said recent policies proposed by the administration threaten to waste public resources, compromise human safety, and weaken national security.

The letter to Duffy comes after the Trump administration axed three NASA departments as part of larger cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency. Several NASA employees were also fired as a result of the DOGE cuts.

"Interim Administrator Duffy, we urge you not to implement the harmful cuts proposed by this administration, as they are not in the best interest of NASA," the letter read.

The group said that the funding cuts could compromise safety for future missions, which was "a dangerous turn away from the lessons learned following the Columbia disaster."

In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.

The declaration added that cutting funding for missions and shutting them down was not reversible.

"Once operational spacecraft are decommissioned, they cannot be turned back on. Additionally, cancelling missions in development threatens to end the next generation of crucial observations," the group said in the document.

A total of 287 current and former NASA employees who signed the declaration, per its website.

In response to the letter, NASA's press secretary, Bethany Stevens, said to CNN that the agency would never compromise on safety.

"Any reduction — including our current voluntary reduction — will be designed to protect safety-critical roles," she said to CNN.

Employees of the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency released similar declarations slamming DOGE cuts. The cuts resulted in more than 200,000 workers across all federal agencies losing their jobs in March.

Representatives for Duffy, NASA, and the Stand Up for Science group did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.