Overview
- Administrator Jared Isaacman said the physical library will shut in the coming months as staff assess every item.
- NASA says the goal is to digitize, transfer, or archive important materials, rejecting claims it plans to toss key records.
- Isaacman acknowledged a 60-day evaluation may leave some items without historical or technical value unretained.
- Researchers and former staff warn the closure risks losing undigitized works, including volumes cited as rare Soviet-era publications.
- Reporting notes this would be the eighth NASA library to close since 2022 as Goddard also shutters more than a dozen buildings and over 100 labs, while libraries at Ames, JPL, and Glenn remain open.