NASA Goes Dark Due To Government Shutdown

The NASA website, www.nasa.gov, is currently inaccessible due to the ongoing government shutdown. NASA is just one of the many other Federal agencies currently in shutdown mode. According to a report submitted by NASA to the Office of Management and Budget, fewer than 600 NASA employees will remain working during a potential shutdown. That’s out of a total employment count that exceeds 18,000 people.

Ongoing space operations for satellites and other space assets in orbit will continue.

“If funding hasn’t been obligated to contracts by today, then work by companies on those contracts will cease,” said Jeff Foust, a space industry analyst at Futron. “That varies on a contract-by-contract basis, so it’s tough to generalize. But, yes, many contractors may be out of work tomorrow, along with civil servants.”

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