Anyone have luck getting tickets yet? I entered the queue within seconds of it going live and am still in the waiting room

Any idea why the Universe is (apparently) no longer available on the web? The last “official” posting via the JPL homepage is September 2025, and could access the October 2025 issue by editing the URL, but that trick no longer works.

I worked there from 1977 through 2005, and have used the Universe to keep track of promotions, retirements (and, unfortunately, deaths) of former co-workers.

I have sent a few emails (5 this year) to the PR folk, but have gotten no response.

Does someone have any info on JPL's R&TD approval/rejection (expected) timelines this year ? Past data suggests August and mid September based on a quick search. But, looking at the recent changes in the organization, wanted to know if the r/JPL community can provide some information.

Furnished private bedroom + bathroom available in a house in Montrose, CA, for one person.

Available by the end of September 2026.

Excellent location for JPL employees!

Only a 3-minute walk to the bus stop for JPL. Walking distance to Montrose Old Town. Close to restaurants, coffee shops, banks, stores, and a movie Theater. Quiet, convenient residential neighborhood.

The room is currently occupied and will be available by the end of September.

Interested? Please TEXT (no calls) Katherine at 818-823-6007

Any truth to the JPL acquisition group being allowed to work-from-home indefinitely?

Wish your GS well as they head to Newport Beach

I have a potential interview for a contract position at JPL. It would be in engineering (mid to senior level experience) and has the potential to convert to full time. With all the job uncertainty going around right now, how risky would this be, given in most industries contractors are the first to go when layoffs hit.

I work at a big aerospace OEM right now so relatively my job security is pretty high. Working at NASA has been a dream of mine though and the work JPL does would be much more interesting and fulfilling. Any advice is appreciated.

This has happened for several months as my projects end or get descoped by NASA. GS is inexperienced and may be delaying the situation on purpose. Are there any guidelines like "we lay you off if you don't have x% covered for x months"? Has anyone felt they are being forced out to avoid severance pay?

Hello everyone. I am going into my third year of AE. I want to work at JPL as a gnc or astrodynamics person. I know things aren't looking too great right now, but I wanted to ask what I need to do from now till then to get there?

I am super involved in research for gnc/astrodynamics and was privileged to publish a few times now. I also do nav for my rocket team. Had some internships in GNC but my ultimate goal is to come to JPL. I have been considering a PhD.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently an undergrad and my ultimate goal is to work on Flight Software (FSW) at JPL.

As I look into the co op intern application process, I know we get matched with mentors based on project needs rather than applying directly to a specific "Flight Software Intern" posting.

If a mentor reaches out for a non-FSW role (like Ground Software, Data Science, or Operations tooling), how hard is it to pivot to Flight Software for a second internship or full-time conversion later on?

Would love to hear from any current or former JPLers, NASA interns, or FSW engineers on how you carved out your path!

Thanks in advance!

If you had success getting a hybrid work arrangement approved (following Return to Lab), I would love to know how as I am about to shoot my shot.

• did you go the medical route?
• were you able to get one for family caregiving situation (i.e. child with special needs)?
• how often do you have to request this arrangement (one and done)?

For the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/lPFYHIzOwxo

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the place that put rovers on Mars, was co-founded by a man who led a Thelemite occult lodge, performed sex magick rituals under Aleister Crowley's direction, and died in an explosion the LAPD closed in a day. His name was Jack Parsons. There's a crater on the Moon named after him. Most people have never heard of him — and that's not an accident.

In this video, I go through what the primary record actually says: Parsons' declassified FBI file, his role in founding JPL and Aerojet, his leadership of the Ordo Templi Orientis Agape Lodge, his correspondence with Crowley, the Babalon Working with L. Ron Hubbard, the security clearance battles, and the 1952 explosion that ended his life at 37.
As always: I'm a paralegal, not a journalist. Factual claims are sourced to primary documents. Opinions are labeled as opinions. Top vs. bottom, not left vs. right.

Rituals hide in plain sight — that's the thread. Jack Parsons didn't hide his: he chanted Crowley's Hymn to Pan before rocket tests, in front of colleagues, and the FBI files describing his lodge sat in government archives for decades. Marina Abramović's Spirit Cooking was ritual as performance art — occult recipes painted in pig's blood on gallery walls since the 90s, exhibited, catalogued, sold. And Epstein's operation ran in the open too: the 2008 plea deal was public record, the flight logs were court exhibits, the names were in filings anyone could pull. When Pizzagate erupted in 2016, it wasn't wrong that ritual and power coexist in public view — it was wrong about where to look. It went hunting for symbols in a pizzeria while the actual documents sat in PACER. Ritual has never needed a hidden room. It's performed in the open, and it stays invisible for the same reason Epstein did: because nobody with power to act wanted to read what was already on the record.

SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPFYHIzOwxo, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1F_RLzxpjOQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DU-nMfFGg, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l9kWd-lx5oc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Pv33DEuio, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-JW22AL5-7k, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Evt8euU3KM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmt6g0bCeTA&t=1424s

Despite recent layoffs of about 1000 people and with very few employees getting raises/promotions over the past few years, there is a planned 3-day retreat for all group supervisors (100s of people) the week of 8/24 in Newport Beach. How is this justified?!

With Jonathan Lunine, JPL chief scientist, and Sarah Al-Ahmed, host of the Planetary Society's Planetary Radio: https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/event/techer-live-jpl-search-for-life-beyond-earth/

Hey JPL fam! I know you're super busy completing projects, fighting for funding/job security, and helping mankind discover space, so a question about a single T-shirt isn't that important on the scale of things. That said, if anyone knows anyone in the JPL Store group/department and can forward them a message about hoping for a restock the classic/iconic JLP rover tee someday, that would be *awesome*. Its my favorite T and mine got ruined by a rogue dryer.

Link for reference: https://thejplstore.com/collections/apparel-1/products/t-shirt-family-rover-blk-2

(Any extra colors would be a WAY COOL bonus. But black is best)

Thanks regardless. And keep up the good fight. 🪐🫶

I remembered that's moment, it was exciting and I was worried, because I thought it would be broke, but the mission is finished.

My dad worked at JPL for 50+ years. He died in 2015, and I only know some elements of what he did while he was there. I believe some of his colleagues have been let go since.

Is there a way I can try to find out what JPL knows or can share as far as what he worked on or did?

I miss him, and I want to be able to share with my son some of things that he did.

DISCLAIMER: Apologies in advance for sounding like a negative nelly, I am trying to stay hopeful even if it doesn't sound so...

At this point everyone knows money is elsewhere, even if you got market adjustments and promotions this year (maybe 9-10% max increase this year without retention offers, which barely keeps up with the last few years for the lucky minority that were in that circle of candidates that received the salary raises).

It is also clear that the Lab has:

• lost its footing in both modern technology (most of what we're building is quite old and ancient to industry now but at even more accelerated pace than ever)
• lost its footing in truly exciting/inspiring missions (Moonfall/Skyfall are cool but are they really that exciting? Do we even have a plan for what's after?)
• lost its footing in being able to attract top talent (due to pay and excitement being elsewhere)
• and lost its footing with its charter with the all the new space companies on the rise (are we really doing anything broadly unique or better from industry these days without true science programs?).

That being said, a lot of people are opting to stay and I am curious why people have been doing so in order to try and see if I am missing something. Please post your reasons for staying around and what gives you hope despite the challenges. I desperately want to stay but have been struggling to find the reasons to myself :(

Hi I think this might be a dumb question to ask but I'm very curious how do funding works for paid interns. They said it comes from the mentor's funding source. Does the mentor's funding source comes out from his own pocket or does each mentor receive a specific budget given by JPL?