NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

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NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will close permanently on Jan 2 under the Trump administration's reorganisation plans.


NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which has been a central research hub for the global space agency since 1959, will be permanently closing on Friday (Jan 2). The closure of the 100,000-volume library is part of the Donald Trump administration's reorganisation drive, under which 13 buildings and over 100 science and engineering laboratories will be shut down on the 1.270-acre campus by March 2026

The NASA Goddard Information and Collaboration Center supported the development of major missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, informed that the agency will review the library holdings over the next two months, and some of the material will be stored in a government warehouse, while the remaining items will be 'tossed away', according to a report in the New York Times


According to a statement posted on the website of the Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association, specialised equipment and electronics designed to test spacecraft have already been removed and thrown out.

“This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property,” said Richmond.

[edhopper]

1. This garbage dumb of an Administration

is erasing history that will never be recovered. They are doing it in all agencies. The Pentagon alone is destroying the history of women and minorities in the military.
We will never get it all back.

[Hey Joe]

2. Just another sad sign that we are rapidly

approaching third world, shithole status as a nation.
Tr💩mp can not die fast enough for me.

[Probatim]

3. Why do I feel like this is how the Dark Ages began?

[DBoon]

7. this is like the destruction of the Library of Alexander

[ashredux]

4. "Tossed away" it's just another way to have a pile of books burning.... Yes, he's burning books.

[haele]

10. Depends. They might be heading out to government auction.

When the military "tosses" obsolete equipment, furniture, manuals or other property, it goes to auction if they think it might have some worth. Ammo and Weapons are sold to foreign nations or given to National Guards or official "police" agencies. Missiles or ammunition that is more complex might be sent back to a manufacturer for upgrades or repurposing of parts and components into newer systems.
As for records, they've gone on microphish or electronic records if they have potential research, tactical, or historical value. The historic records they don't have copied are typically sent to interested museums or research facilities; there's always some organization interested in the R&D or battle orders/movements for various systems or operations.
Why just pay to throw something that has potential value into a landfill that others might pay good money for?

I hope that NASA might do the same; that they've let "the community" know over the past year that they're closing their library down and made what information hasn't been transferred to electronic archive or copied available for bid or dibs.

[ToxMarz]

5. Kind of hobbling the govt and taxpayers so all intellectual property is privatized.

You want to go to space, you gotta pay Musk.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. """

[Farmer-Rick]

8. I doubt the equipment was thrown out

"specialised equipment and electronics designed to test spacecraft have already been removed and thrown out."

Trump probably had a free-for-all, going-out-of-business, give away. That's very expensive equipment. It probably went to Musk, Bezo, Jared Isaacman or any other filthy-rich POS who wants a hand out from our tax dollar expenditures.

Keep paying your taxes everyone so that we can fund all these billionaires.

[DBoon]

9. they should have donated the books to someone committed to space exploratio

Like the Chinese government perhaps

[PCIntern]

11. Many years ago that was done,

Almost unbelievably, at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. It was a huge library consisting of science and engineering books which was discarded and dispersed. An incalculable loss AFAIC.

[GreenWave]

12. We again pay the price for his lack of knowledge.