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  "textContent": "In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. […]\n\nThe post ‘People knew that they could come to us to figure out how to get things done.’ appeared first on SpaceNews.",
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