US EditionWith 15,000 Workers Furloughed and Funds Uncertain, NASA Focuses on One Mission — Return to the Moon
NASA furloughed over 15,000 employees nationwide, halting public tours and education programs while essential space missions continue amid the federal government shutdown.
- On Wednesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration partially shut down, furloughing more than 15,000 civil servants and placing 3,000 employees in non-work, non-pay status.
- A memo from acting Chief Financial Officer Steve Shinn on Tuesday explained NASA's shutdown plan and said it will evaluate available funds before starting orderly shutdowns of non-excepted activities.
- Essential satellite operations and research activities aligning with presidential priorities will continue, and employees vital to the International Space Station and Artemis program remain on duty.
- Tours and public education visits to NASA centers are canceled while Space Center Houston remains open and a state-run camp for visually impaired students is unaffected.
- Operations will be reassessed next week, NASA and Redstone Arsenal said, and furloughed employees will receive back pay after the shutdown though payroll processing may be delayed.
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Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week after the beginning of the government's closure, which stopped work in much of an agency that was already dealing with budget cuts and widespread losses of...
With 15,000 workers furloughed and funds uncertain, NASA focuses on one mission — return to the moon
The space agency has been grappling with budget uncertainties and a talent exodus even before the shutdown. But NASA’s moon program has remained largely untouched.
Memo: more than 70 percent of Johnson Space Center’s workforce furloughed amid government shutdown
The furlough plan targets the agency's workforce of more than 15,000 civil servants. That includes 2,317 employees - or about 15 percent - at the Houston-based Johnson Space Center. The Johnson Space Center employees included in the furlough cover about 73 percent of the total Houston-based workforce.
More than 15,000 space agency workers were put on forced leave because Congress did not approve the budget. The suspension should not interfere with the Artemis programme
What’s open, what’s closed at Redstone Arsenal and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration furloughed more than 15,000 employees nationwide, with another 3,000 working without pay following the Wednesday morning shutdown of the federal government.
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