NASA Acting Chief Says DOGE Will Review the Agency’s Spending as Hundreds Take Buyout Offer

‘We are going to have DOGE come. They’re going to look ... at our payments and what money has gone out.’ NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro said.

NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, satellites at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on March 2015. NASA via AP

Janet Petro, acting administrator of NASA, said on Feb. 12 that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would probe the space agency’s spending, noting that hundreds of its employees had already accepted the Trump administration’s worker buyout offer.

Petro, who previously served as head of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, made the comments to reporters at a space industry conference in Washington.