Skip to content A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world. In this illustration, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collects a sample from the asteroid Bennu. The agency's superpower is its capacity to dazzle us. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Spread across NASA's headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, tha...