At least 5,000 federal workers left their positions in the U.S. space workforce last year. These are some of their stories.

An abridged version of this article first appeared in the February 2026 issue of SpaceNews Magazine.

Serving the country and pushing the boundaries of human existence is very purposeful.' ...

When I was a senior in high school, I saw a picture of the space shuttle landing on a runway on the front page of my hometown ...

After that, I came back to the D.C.-area to work in Earth Science. It was a big change. I was no longer the manager of a ...

Leaders can be replaced; institutional knowledge cannot. I am privileged to have had the chance to serve in the U.S.

We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA. I became the agency’s first chief AI officer. I set the agency strategy for ...

China set for in-flight abort test of Mengzhou crew spacecraft China appears set for an in-flight abort test of its ...

WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official pitched the Golden Dome missile defense initiative to investors and executives as ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Tomorrow.io raised $175 million to fund DeepSky, a satellite constellation designed to gathering vast ...

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Over the moon and under the radar ...