Rose Ferreira’s NASA ascent, highlighted by a 2022 feature and her 2024 White House honor, ended as her story was deleted and her job dissolved amid new DEIA rollbacks—making the agency’s orbit around inclusion feel more like a black hole than a launchpad.

After her narrative vanished from NASA’s site, Ferreira returned from pneumonia only to lose her job days later. Her viral social media post about federal workforce downsizing drew 85,000 likes, showing how a single ‘malcriada’ can expose the agency’s shifting gravity and inspire hope beyond the launchpad.