<ul><li>Unlike workers at many other federal agencies this week, probationary employees at NASA were not terminated on Tuesday.</li><li>Employees at the space agency anticipated a directive from the White House Office of Personnel Management to fire probationary employees but it never came.</li><li>The White House confirmed that probationary employees at NASA, comprising about 6% of the workforce, would not be terminated.</li><li>It is unclear whether the reprieve applies to all field centers or only some of them.</li></ul>

In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees

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