Welcome Back To Work, NASA
NASA Administrator Message: Thank You! Let’s Get Safely Back to the Business of Exploration
“We understand the worry and confusion coming back to work may cause and we’re going to do our best to keep you informed as agency systems are brought back online and you’re asked to pick up where you left off more than a month ago. As you probably know, the President signed S.24, the “Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019,” into law. The bill guarantees that federal civil servant workers will receive wages withheld during this shutdown, and future shutdowns. I understand our contractors are facing different challenges regarding pay and benefits and our procurement team will be working these issues in the days moving forward to try to do as much as we legally can to assist everyone affected.”
At least in human space flight, no one at NASA has “explored” in 45 years, and at the rate they are moving, it might be another 45 years.
SpaceX is taking of the government reopening to get its launch license for the ISS cargo flight CRS-17 which was scheduled for March as well as the two Falcon Heavy launches. Hopefully they will receive them quickly in case the FAA AST shutdowns again.
https://arstechnica.com/sci…
One of the permits
concerns the next International Space Station cargo supply mission for
the Dragon spacecraft, CRS-17, which had been scheduled for March. This
permit for “Dragon capsule telemetry, tracking, and command” indicates
that the mission will now fly no earlier than April 12.