NASA Update On COVID-19 Impact On Missions
NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of Coronavirus, NASA
“We are going to take care of our people. That’s our first priority,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “Technology allows us to do a lot of what we need to do remotely, but, where hands-on work is required, it is difficult or impossible to comply with CDC guidelines while processing spaceflight hardware, and where we can’t safely do that we’re going to have to suspend work and focus on the mission critical activities.” The agency has defined mission-essential work as that which must be performed to maintain critical mission operations to ensure the schedule of time-sensitive mission-critical launches, or work to protect life and critical infrastructure. This includes work to support America’s national security and mission-essential functions for the nation. NASA leadership will continually assess all activities as the situation evolves.”
A well written article from the BBC by its health and science writer that speculates this emergency may be the new normal for a while. Probably something folks should be thinking about.
https://www.bbc.com/news/he…
Coronavirus: When will the outbreak end and life get back to normal?
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent
20 March 2020
Yes we will all be hitting the “normal” reset switch.