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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. JPL laid off 550 employees Tuesday — the fourth round in a series of layoffs that cut a quarter of employees over ...

The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge announced on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its staff. "Despite this being incredibly difficult for our community, this ...

A full-scale model of Curiosity on display at JPL prior to the actual rover's landing on Mars, August 5, 2012. The scene just before NASA's last pre-landing press conference regarding Curiosity rover ...

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...

Hundreds of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be affected by budget constraints looming over the space agency for the current year, with Congress still behind on issuing the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is quietly turning a concrete-walled test bay into the launchpad for a new era of commercial ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the layoff of approximately 550 employees, constituting 11% of its workforce, as part of an ongoing center reorganization initiated in July. JPL ...

At 2:00 a.m. in the blond hills of La Cañada Flintridge, California, one house stands lit among the others—an open eye in a sleeping town. Bryn Oh, the woman who lives in the house, helps her son ...

What's the difference between NASA and JPL? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Jim Lux, ...