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How the government shutdown affects NASA

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 ...
Yahoo

NASA employees return to work as 43-day government shutdown ends

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After 43 anxious days without pay or certainty, NASA employees are returning to work Thursday at the Johnson Space Center in ...
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Do rockets still launch during a government shutdown? How NASA could feel the effects

Is it time for NASA to hang up those spacesuits and power down those rockets? NASA is far from immune to the effects of a looming government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an ...

What NASA told Congress

House appropriators pressed NASA for details on some of its initiatives, including plans to convert contractors to full-time federal employees, outsource parts of its science work and build a new Mars ...
Astronomy

What’s at stake for NASA if government shuts down

Amid a looming government shutdown, NASA’s future hinges on whether Congress can pass a stopgap funding measure with protective language for the agency. On Wednesday, the White House Office of ...
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NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble and James Webb ...

NASA's changing stance on UFOs: Full timeline

NASA's relationship with UFOs has evolved alongside broader changes in public and government interest in unexplained sightings.