{"id":380477,"date":"2025-11-15T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:09:15","slug":"nasa-responds-to-congress-about-gsfc-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380477\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Responds To Congress About GSFC Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CongressNASA.png\" alt=\"NASA Responds To Congress About GSFC Concerns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                                                            Congress and NASA \u2014 Grok via NASAWatch.com                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith\u2019s note:<\/strong> this letter was sent by Acting NASA GSFC Director Cynthia Simmons and NASA SMD AA Nicola Fox to Rep. Zoe Lofgren regarding Lofgren\u2019s letter to NASA <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/shutdown\/house-demands-answers-over-goddard-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">House Demands Answers Over Goddard Changes<\/a>)<\/strong> over concerns about actions being taken at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. . <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nasawatch.com\/congress\/nasa-responds-to-congress-about-gsfc-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Full letter below<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">November 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thank you for your letter and interest in the vital work of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Since NASA\u2019s inception, Goddard has pioneered much of the technology that enables exploration, America\u2019s thriving space industry, and world changing science missions.<\/p>\n<p>Your assertion that Goddard is being shut down or dismantled, however, could not be further from the truth. As you are no doubt aware, NASA has operated under continuing resolutions (CRs) for much of the past two fiscal years. These CRs, combined with rising operations and maintenance costs over a prolonged period have forced NASA to implement efforts to ensure the center\u2019s long-term viability through more efficiently utilizing available space and consolidating or reconstituting facilities. Efforts to reduce operations and maintenance costs started at other Goddard campuses over five years ago, and discussions and specific planning for consolidation efforts at the Greenbelt campus began in June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This ongoing work will make Goddard better positioned to lead the development, integration, and testing of NASA Science flight missions, and will reduce approximately $10 million a year in the center\u2019s annual operating costs while also avoiding approximately $64 million in deferred maintenance costs. This work is being carefully coordinated with the mission project managers of the critical missions currently in development to avoid impacting schedule and\/or increasing costs. In many cases, waiting to reconfigure laboratories or technical workspaces would unnecessarily delay program work and increase mission cost.<\/p>\n<p>All these efforts are in alignment with NASA Science Mission Directorate leadership and are designed to position Goddard for the future and protect ongoing missions, many of which are in pursuit of key decadal priorities and Congressional direction. Thank you again for your interest in this effort and I look forward to continuing to work with you to advance American leadership in space. Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia W. Simmons<br \/>Director (Acting)<br \/>Goddard Space Flight Center<\/p>\n<p>Nicola J. Fox, Ph.D.<br \/>Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congress and NASA \u2014 Grok via NASAWatch.com Keith\u2019s note: this letter was sent by Acting NASA GSFC Director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[327,40953,916,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-380477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-gsfc","10":"tag-nasa","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115553171640345030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}