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NASA, as President Obama put it in his afternoon remarks, will "shut down almost entirely" if a faction of congressional Republicans succeeds in preventing a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open from coming to the House floor for a vote.
According to The Washington Post, just 549 of NASA's 18,250 employees will be expected to work if the government shuts down. The remainder -- 17,701 people -- will be furloughed
Even Curiosity, our rover on Mars, will face its own little robot furlough: The explorer will "be put in a protective mode" for the duration of the shutdown, and will not collect any new data during that time.
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http://www.spacenews.com/article/civ...-love-congress
I guess Curiosity won't be taking pics of comet ISON scheduled for the 1st of October.
I've been counting the minutes away the last few days in excitement of the pics. Nooooooo
I wonder if the same applies to the Mars orbiters too.
But seeing comet ISON thru Curiosity's eyes on the surface of Mars would have been very special IMO.