NASA employees on SpaceX Artemis missions to work through shutdown

CNBC learned that NASA’s spaceX and Blue Origin contradictions and employees who participated in Artemis mission required to stay in SpaceX and Blue Origin.

NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Kelly Elliott will not be paid to employees during the closure of work written by an E -mail on Wednesday, but employees need to record their time. NASA employees are expected to receive payments for their work after reopening.

In a separate note on Monday, NASA’s acting finance chief Steve Shinn revealed details about tasks to be supported during the closing.

NASA will continue to support the “planned operations” of the International Space Station and any satellite mission in the “operation stage”. Authorized, NASA, including employees and contractors working on these projects, “Artemis operations during any funding” will support, he added.

Shinn said NASA would force about 15,000 people and require approximately 3,000 personnel to continue part -time or full -time working during closing.

The closure of the US government began early on Wednesday morning and paved the way for hundreds of thousands of federal workers to furough and a series of key programs and services. Government employees who are accepted as “necessary” such as transportation safety administration (TSA) officers and air traffic controllers are required to continue working.

On websiteNASA describes Artemis as a campaign “to” explore the bear for scientific discovery, the moon for economic benefits and to form the basis of the first crew tasks to Mars “as a campaign. This week, notes did not name contractors associated with various artemis missions.

Directed by Elon Musk, SpaceX has won great Artemis contracts with Starship Rocket, the longest and most powerful rocket released so far. SpaceX has blown the full star vessel rocket system on 10 test flights since April 2023 and plans to do something else On October 13. The previous star ship test flights had five failures, partial failures and four achievements.

NASA employees told CNBC, Blue Origin, owned by Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, was given another Artemis contract and said that the work on Lunar Lander would continue during the closure.

Artemis III, planned for 2027, will be the first person to directly contain SpaceX. The mission would bring two NASA astronauts to the south polar area of ​​the moon.

Early Artemis Mission NASA Lockheed Martin And Boeing To design, build, analyze and then buy rockets that the agency will have directly owned by the agency. Artemis II and NASA, planned in the beginning of 2026, aim to send four astronauts around the moon before they return to Earth.

And the aim of Artemis IV+ HLS with SpaceX is to put astronauts in the first month space station and to help NASA and its partners prepare for a final human mission for Mars. Artemis V is expected to have blue origin.

Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin has not concluded the design of moon descents and has only built only test equipment.

NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin representatives did not respond to the request for comments immediately. An automatically from NASA said the agency was “closed due to a transition in government financing”.

NASA’s communication office news conductor Cheryl Warner’s message, “Therefore, I can not answer your message right now,” he said.

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