As part of its plans to gut the center, it shut NASA’s largest library at the GFSC last month, threatening to trash important documents in the process. “I feel like crying,” planetary scientist David Williams, who has curated space mission data for NASA’s archives, told NPR this week. NASA’s budget, in particular, has become a major target of the administration, with a proposed 2026 fiscal budget potentially cutting the agency’s science directorate budget by more than half, an “extinction-level event,” as characterized by critics. (Congress has since rejected Trump’s proposed cuts outright as NASA’s budget continues to be hotly debated.) “This administration is essentially doing things without letting the team at NASA Goddard know what their intentions are.”More on the situation: NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library