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ANKARA More than 3,800 NASA employees — over 20% of the agency’s civil servant workforce — have applied to resign under a federal buyout program, as the space agency faces major budget cuts and leadership uncertainty, according to US media reports on Friday. The deferred resignation program, part of a Trump administration effort to reduce federal spending, could shrink NASA’s workforce from around 18,000 to 14,000 employees, CBS News reported. The figure includes nearly 500 workers who left