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Hundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed an open letter, directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy, criticizing proposed cuts to the agency and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.

The letter, titled “The Voyager Declaration” in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s (that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of the Solar System to this day), states that cuts proposed by the Trump administration are “arbitrary” and “in defiance of congressional appropriations” already promised to the agency.

The letter is addressed to Duffy, who Trump appointed to serve as interim administrator for NASA earlier this month.

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