US shuts down

摘要

Happy birthday NASA-now have an enforced holiday without pay. Most of the agency's 18,000 employees were not in the office to celebrate its 55th birthday on Tuesday, as a result of the US federal government shutdown. They are just a small proportion of roughly 800,000 "non-essential" government workers, including many key scientific and medical providers, who were not at work as New Scientist went to press.