The Washington Post has an article in today’s issue that goes into more details about the planned cuts both in employees and facilities at the agency’s various field centers. Besides the job cuts, which have been previously reported, the article indicates that 14 facilities at NASA field centers, including ten wind tunnels, could be closed. Also on the chopping block is the US-Japanese centrifuge module for the ISS, currently being built at NASA Ames. One interesting note is that, with the lack of a full-time administrator, the planning for the cuts is currently led not by acting administrator Fred Gregory but by associate administrator for exploration Craig Steidle.
