Government shutdown stops MAVEN work; Threatens NASA Mars launch
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
The upcoming Nov. 18 blastoff of NASA's next mission to Mars – the "breathtaking beautiful" MAVEN orbiter – is threatened by today's (Oct. 1) shutdown of the US Federal Government. And the team is very "concerned", although not yet "panicked."
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