At 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, when the federal government shut down due to a lack of appropriations from Congress, NASA began pausing its operations. While the agency has protocols for dealing with a government shutdown that it has turned to before, the current political context introduces new factors, including the potential for permanent staffContinue reading “How the government shutdown affects NASA”
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