CLEVELAND — The White House’s proposed budget for Northeast Ohio’s NASA Glenn Research Center and the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky calls for cutting about 554 jobs over the next year.

When compared to last year's budget, that amounts to a 38% cut of all federal NASA civil servants in the area.

Right now, NASA Glenn employs about 1,400 civil servants. This proposal calls for trimming that number to 837.

News 5 obtained a copy of the proposed budget.

A more detailed look at that budget shows Glenn’s aeronautics program would be just about cut in half, from 399 employees to 182.

News 5 has highlighted Glenn’s aeronautics division over the years, from a push to bring back commercial supersonic flight over the continental United States to helping map out a highway in the sky

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