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. The agency says it's cutting around 530 employees from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California amid budget uncertainty. That's eight percent of the facility's workforce.
Uncertainty over the final budget that Congress will allocate to NASA for 2024 has played a major factor in the cuts. It's expected that the agency will receive around $300 million for“While we still do not have an FY24 appropriation or the final word from Congress on our Mars Sample Return budget allocation, we are now in a position where we must take further significant action to reduce our spending,” JPL Director Laurie Leshin wrote in a memo.
NASA has yet to provide a full cost estimate for MSR, though an independent report pegged the price at between $8 billion and $11 billion. In its proposed 2024 budget, the Senate Appropriations subcommittee ordered NASA to submit a year-by-year funding plan for MSR. If the agency does not do so, the subcommittee warned that the mission could be canceled.and would warrant closer analysis were NASA able to bring them back to Earth.
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