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Keith\u2019s note: <\/strong>According to a House Science Democrats press release: \u201cToday, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter<\/strong><\/a> to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Acting Administrator Sean Duffy demanding that NASA immediately halt plans to close and move laboratories and mission-critical facilities at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Ranking Member states NASA must respond within 24 hours and emphasizes the threat these chaotic and veiled moves and closures, partially carried out during a government shutdown, pose for flagship NASA missions. Committee staff obtained new information late last week that Goddard has told staff additional facilities would need to be emptied by Wednesday, November 12.\u201d More below plus full letter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn recent days, my staff has received disturbing reports that NASA is directing the imminent closure of laboratories and facilities hosting mission-critical capabilities at the Greenbelt, Maryland, campus of the Goddard Space Flight Center,\u201d said Ranking Member Lofgren in the letter. \u201cThese actions put essential hardware and capabilities at great risk.<\/p>\n The laboratories and facilities facing closure support many NASA flight missions, and they include laboratories essential to the completion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The agency\u2019s hastily planned moves and closures \u2013 some of which I understand are already well underway \u2013 risk causing significant delays for multi-billion-dollar missions under development such as Roman and could heighten the risk of mission failure altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNASA must halt any and all laboratory, facility, and building closure and relocation activities at Goddard as well as the relocation, disposal, excessing, or repurposing of any specialized equipment or mission-related capabilities, hardware, and systems, and it must do so now,\u201d continued Ranking Member Lofgren.<\/p>\n \u201cFurther, NASA must ensure the continuing operation of the laboratories and facilities needed to sustain the ongoing, excepted work occurring at the Goddard campus, especially work on the Roman Space Telescope. The agency must respond to this letter, in writing, within 24 hours to confirm that all such activities at Goddard have been put on hold indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n