Washington, October 13 (EFE). – The closing of government agencies in the United States, which has sent home more than 800,000 employees, has been suspended and silenced numerous space exploration activities but two employees of NASA with few assignments, still active orbital locked in his office.
astronauts Mike Hopkins and Karen Nyberg, aboard the International Space Station, continue orbiting about 400 miles above Earth and more than 27,000 miles per hour, and spend time tweeting.
“Have you ever watched the clouds go by and you let your imagination see different ways?” tweeted one day after the closing Hopkins along with a beautiful photograph of the clouds seen from the ISS. “It also works from space”.
portal space agency NASA on the Internet has been closed, as well as the many other federal agencies, since 1 October when Republican refusal to approve funds for the administration forced the suspension of more than 800,000 public employees.
But the millions of people throughout the world , passionately follow space exploration have found a way to fill the silence from NASA: a network of twitter and facebook updated much information can be obtained from different authoritative sources.
Bill Dunford, Salt Lake City, Utah , who works for a computer company, created the hashtag # ThingsNASAMightTweet, and Angela Gibson, an educator in Norfolk, Virginia , called on Facebook to the media covering NASA usually “say ‘present’ and cover the gap” with social media.
American Astronomical Society continues to collect, among astronomers from across the country, stories that illustrate the impact on scientific research that is taking the partial shutdown of the federal government, which now meets thirteen days.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which closed its headquarters in Virginia, suspended operations on Friday, 4 thus closed their eyes to the universe the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array, in New Mexico, and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia .
The agency is also co-responsible for the operation of ALMA radio telescope in Atacama, Chile, but the facility could continue operating for another two or three weeks.
management giant Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico , has made plans for the suspension of all employees in mid-October if it is prolonged shutdown of the federal bureaucracy.
NASA, which had to suspend its work at 97 percent of its employees, temporarily postponed preparation for the launch of the MAVEN capsule, designed to study Mars from orbit.
favorable period for launching Maven ends in mid-December, and the instrument designed to improve communications between Earth and the rovers on Mars does not start by then, will have to wait until 2016 for alignment appropriate planets.
The strike has also forced NASA to silence radio communications even when another mission, the capsule LADEE, was placed successfully in orbit of the moon on Sunday.
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space science conferences have been suspended but, for now, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, continues to operate normally because their employees work for California University of Technology (Caltech) and not for the agency federal.
Anyway, the direction of the Laboratory has indicated that weekly reassess the situation by prolonged government shutdown.
Experiment HiRISE
holding the capsule Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA, is administered by the University of Arizona , via twitter, said he has funds to continue the work until the end of the month.
(Reuters)
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