The approaching Eaton wildfire has forced the closure of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, NASA's lead center for robotic planetary exploration.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the agency's research and development center at the cutting edge of space exploration for decades, is officially under an evacuation order due to a spreading wildfire. Ironically,

As the wildfires burn only a few miles away from the NASA facility, communities around northern parts of Los Angeles County are evacuated, NASA's specialized firefighters protect the facility.