Stevens described the moves at Goddard as a “consolidation, not a closure” in a statement to the NYT. “The rapid and haphazard shutdown of the library at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, reported on by The New York Times, decimated this valuable collection housed at NASA’s largest research library,” Biggs wrote. “This was not part of some ‘long-planned facilities consolidation’ as Isaacman claims,” Biggs wrote. “Where is the consolidation?” Biggs wrote. More on the closure: NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library