Goverment Shutdown zmusił częśc pracowników do korzystania nawet z pomocy żywnościowej.
Pracownicy nie mieli płacone za wsparcie ISS.
Najdłuższa tego typu przerwa spowodowała duże niezadowolenie personelu NASA, które znalazło wyraz w protestach.
I oczywiście opóźnienie wielu kosmicznych przedsięwzięć.
Gloves provided: Unpaid workers at NASA's Houston center asked to clean toilets during shutdownAlex Stuckey Jan. 24, 2019
(...) Anger and frustration over the shutdown has reached a boiling point in Houston, where 94 percent of the 3,055 federal employees at Johnson have been forced out of work since the government was shuttered Dec. 22 because of a political battle over the proposed border wall.
With Johnson employees set to miss their second paycheck of the shutdown Friday, about 50 people took to the streets last week to protest, begging Congressional leaders to reopen the government so they could get back to work — and get paid. (...)
Johnson is home to the nation's astronaut corps, where human space flight research and training take place. It also is home to the space station's mission operations and the Orion program.
About 200 federal employees still working at Johnson are there primarily to ensure the astronauts aboard the space station remain safe. Those employees are not getting paid. (...)
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(...) Nationwide, the shutdown has put 96 percent of the space agency federal workforce — or 16,700 employees — out of work as President Donald Trump holds firm on his demand that Congress fund a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. In Houston, NASA employees upset about the shutdown are expected to protest at noon Tuesday outside the gates of Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway. (...)
The first Orion spacecraft mission, which will not have a crew, was supposed to fly in 2017. It was delayed until the mid-2020s, but then a NASA’s Office of Inspector General report last year found that it likely wouldn’t make that launch date either: cost and scheduling problems continue to plague the rocket that will send it into space.
That means the second Orion mission — being built to send humans around the moon no later than 2023 — could also experience delays.
So far, Griffith hasn’t heard if Orion’s schedule will be impacted by the shutdown, but that doesn’t put an end to her anxiety. (...)
SpaceX — one of two commercial companies tasked by NASA to build spacecraft to take humans to the International Space Station — was forced to delay the launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket during the January 2018 shutdown. And this week, the company delayed the launch of its first, uncrewed test flight by about a month.
Though NASA officials said the delay was the result of additional testing and reviews, the current shutdown certainly didn’t help matters.
“SpaceX is assessing any impacts of the partial government shutdown to our commercial launches,” Eva Behrend, a SpaceX spokeswoman, said in a statement Thursday. “NASA continues to support Commercial Crew Program operations as we move toward our first demonstration mission of Crew Dragon next month.”
The company was hit with another blow last week when officials announced it would be laying off 10 percent of about 6,000 employees, saying it needed to be “leaner.” (...)
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