Congress Wants Answers On Major NASA GSFC Actions

Keith’s note: House Science Committee Democrats just issued this press release that includes a letter and detailed spreadsheet listing GSFC changes to personnel, programs, and facilities in excruciating detail – and requests NASA feedback. My quick take: It would seem that no one is doing any real work at GSFC until next spring since everything is moving, being sold off, rebuilt, closed down. Other centers have similar albeit more localized changes like this but all of the actions have not hit them yet. So NASA will have lost staff, lose budget (programs, missions etc.) one way or another, and everyone is moving their offices or waiting for people to get to their new locations before resuming work. ‘Time for a new NASA phone book’ as we’d say at NASA. Full text and links below.

(Washington, DC) – On November 21, 2025, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Science Committee Democratic Members sent a letter to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) requesting a formal audit of the agency’s recent actions regarding widespread closures and relocations at the Goddard Space Flight Center including its main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland. Today, Ranking Member Lofgren sent a follow up letter to the NASA OIG providing additional information pertaining to the schedule for NASA’s planned “consolidation” activities through May 2026 at the main Goddard campus.

“While the schedule remains subject to change on an ongoing basis by Goddard and agency management, the information contained within describes the plan for relocation activities at the Greenbelt campus as it stood on November 14th, 2025,” said Ranking Member Lofgren. “In addition to assisting with your review, I believe the document will emphasize the need for urgency in your efforts.”

The Goddard Space Flight Center consolidation schedule can be found here.

Democratic Committee staff redacted information related to security arrangements at the Greenbelt campus as well as the identities of individual NASA personnel.

The letter can be found here.