CEO of NASA retired in the wave of dismissal

Jim Free has decades and has monitored all 18,000 NASA employees on 10 US centers. Although voluntarily left, Mr. Free is likely to leave with 1,000 other NASA employees facing the risk of being fired in the near future.

In addition to the NASA staff who have accepted Trump’s resignation, NASA is among the federal agencies instructed by the US Human Resources Office “to identify all employees who are in the probationary period” for standard For the upcoming dismissal.

Free shared, honored to serve NASA and accompany the labor force to resolve the most difficult technical challenges, pursue new scientific knowledge in the universe, develop technology for examination efforts. Break in the future.

Mr. Free comes from Ohio. He has a aviation diploma at the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio, and a master’s degree in space system at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His career at NASA started in 1990, at the Goddard space flight center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he worked on data transfer satellites.

In March 2016, Mr. Free was appointed Deputy Administrator in charge of technical at the Board of Directors of the mission of exploring and operating people at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, a position he held until until Becoming an administrator in January 2024.

Recently, Mr. Free is a senior adviser for NASA administrators, Janet Petro, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the agency until a new administrator was approved by the National Assembly. Earlier Jared Isaacman, 42, owned an estimated fortune of US $ 1.8 billion, was nominated by Donald Trump as NASA director – as a permanent leader of NASA.