Budget pressures forced layoffs at NASA's premier robotics lab, raising questions about future U.S. missions.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory , a leading center for robotic space exploration run by
's budget. Martin Barstow, a University of Leicester professor of astrophysics and space science who works with several arms of the space agency, said similar layoffs have been seen elsewhere.'What I think is happening at JPL is already happening a bit on the East Coast side with reductions to Hubble Space Telescope activities, for example,' Barstow told Newsweek. 'It's a budget issue at the moment around various projects.
will decide on the future of the mission by the end of this year, according to the website SpaceNews.Despite the layoffs, Barstow expressed confidence that space exploration is in a good place, with
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