NASA Acting Chief Says DOGE Will Review the Agency’s Spending as Hundreds Take Buyout Offer

Janet Petro, the acting administrator of NASA, said on Feb. 12 that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would probe the space agency’s spending, adding that hundreds its employees had already accepted the Trump administration’s worker buyout offer. Petro, who previously served as head of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, made the comments to reporters at a space industry conference in Washington. “We are going to have DOGE come. They’re going to look—similarly [to] what they’ve done in other agencies—at our payments and what money has gone out,” Petro said. She said hundreds of the agency’s employees have accepted the deferred retirement offer, which gives them eight months of pay and benefits if they voluntarily leave their posts....