The US shutdown halted NASA operations and the Artemis lunar program.

NASA's press service reports that the American aerospace agency is forced to suspend work on all its projects due to the US government shutdown. A shutdown, as a reminder, is a government shutdown due to a lack of funding. This funding is lacking due to the budget's lack of approval by Congress.

A message appeared on NASA's official website announcing that the work had been terminated. It also hinted that the employees themselves were unsure what to do with the work.

Moreover, all of this is stated on the home page, which displays the progress of the lunar exploration program. Now, the suspension of funding for government programs is once again delaying the implementation of the Artemis program, which is intended to culminate in the return of American astronauts to the Moon. At least, that's how NASA's current (and previous) work is positioned.

NASA employees, as American media commented on the situation, are in a "state of limbo." Work is needed to complete the assembly. missiles- a launch vehicle that will be used for flights not only to the Moon but also to Mars. However, it is currently unclear when these ambitious programs will resume operations.

Meanwhile, there are no shutdowns in China, and work on the lunar program there continues at full speed. Among other things, the possibility of placing the first lunar station on the surface of Earth's natural satellite is being explored.

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[Major Yurik]

Everything is for the best, the Yankees have no business on the Moon, they will create some kind of bloody mess there under their personal leadership!

[Sky strike fighter]

NASA employees, as American media outlets are commenting on the situation, are in a "state of limbo." Work is needed to complete the assembly of the launch vehicle, which will be used for flights not only to the Moon but also to Mars. However, it is currently unclear when activities on these ambitious programs will resume.

Anecdote:

The old director resigns and says to the new one: here are three envelopes for you, it will be difficult to open them one by one.
Three months pass, things at the company aren't improving, he's being reprimanded at the board meeting, he comes home, opens the first envelope, and there's the inscription: "Blame it all on me."
For the next three months, at meetings, he insists that the old director let everything slide, that they found a hole there, that something was wrong there, etc. It seems like they stopped scolding him.
But after three months the same thing started again - you've been in charge for six months now, it's time to fix the situation, etc.
He opens the second envelope - the inscription "Promise"
And for three months he's been telling us, "Okay, we've figured it out, we'll fix this now, we'll get this sorted out," etc.
But three months later, he's harshly reprimanded at a meeting for not having improved in nine months. He opens the third envelope, and there's a note inside: "Write three envelopes."

[Infinity]

In my opinion, our media is making too much of the American shutdowns. It's just the elites haggling. The last one, remember, lasted 35 days. So what? Nothing.
As for China, there's no doubt that work there isn't stopping, but they're still playing catch-up. Their super-heavy launch vehicles (the Long March 9 and Long March 10) are still in development, unlike the American SLS, which was already successfully launched on Artemis-1, and Starship, which is in the flight testing phase (the Chinese liked it so much that they recently updated the Long March 9 design, essentially copying Starship).

[Sky strike fighter]

Well, let's take their problems, as they say. I would also add that let's take our problems, so that they don't get away with it.

[Adrey]

Quote: Sky Strike fighter

Well, let's take their problems, as they say. I would also add that let's take our problems, so that they don't get away with it.

Does anyone remember our 1998 shutdown? It lasted much longer, and we survived.

[Ksavier]

We survived. But at what cost?

[air wolf]

So the question immediately arises: was there an Apollo program before?
I'm sure it's not, and space in the US only began with the shuttles, all those Soyuz-Apollo missions only happened when our people didn't object to the lunar mission, by doing so they followed the US lead and destroyed the USSR, good luck to the traitors of the motherland, downvote

[Infinity]

Quote: air wolf

I'm sure that no, and space in the USA only began with shuttles.

So, without any experience in manned spaceflight, the US created the Space Shuttle, which could accommodate up to eight astronauts, and, interestingly, not only several Soyuz spacecraft, but also, for example, Salyut-type spacecraft? Are you serious? Here are a couple of pictures to help you understand the difference (the third one shows the Shuttle docked with the Mir spacecraft).
The "logic" of conspiracy theorists has always surprised me.

[Magog_]

The picture with the Mir station is beautiful, but not real... Firstly, the background of space is absolutely dark (you will immediately say that this is the "exposure of the picture"), secondly, who and how was able to move away from the station to take such a "stunning shot" (?), and thirdly, no "shuttles" (and "Burans") are capable of returning from space orbit, withstanding the aerodynamic heating and pressure of the hypersonic flow, the properties of which I have repeatedly illustrated here (a very "viscous" thick layer of the boundary layer of air, enveloping the aircraft from all sides in the form of a "cocoon" with a temperature of more than 3000 degrees C). Only a massive ablative coating over the entire surface of the spacecraft (like on the Soyuz) offers a chance of surviving a braking descent from space orbit, and conspiracy theories have nothing to do with it—it's just pure physics. Aside from the spectacularly burned-up Columbia in 2003, there are no other records of Shuttles being in orbit. That is, the Americans still continue to stage manned "flights" into space. This also applies to the Chinese.

[Maikcg]

There was experience in suborbital spaceflight. Gagarin had a bathroom prepared for him at the dawn of the space era, and Hollywood clowns gleefully laughed at the shit floating around the cabin. On the Space Shuttle, characteristically, the laughter stopped, and doctors were surprised to discover the corresponding E. coli microflora in the astronauts' saliva, something they hadn't observed before (due to the short duration of the flights). And gigantism is in the Americans' blood.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ NASA employees, as American media comment on the situation, are in in limbo ❞ —

- Let them get used to it. weightlessness, it will be useful in the future...

[Alex777]

It is rightly said that great empires are destroyed from within.
And we must not frighten them in this very important and necessary matter.

[Reptiloid]

It looked smooth on paper, but they forgot about the ravines, and walking through them

not the first time already

[Alex_12]

It's amazing that there's no longer even money for sets in Hollywood.

[KVU-NSVD]

These shutdowns are an annual attraction there. But if projects are being shut down, it's not because of the shutdowns. Sooner or later, they'll reach an agreement and work will resume, and the staff is unlikely to run away.

[rocket757]

Will they come to an agreement, for the first time, or something...

[alexoff]

According to Artemis, landing one Starship on the Moon would require 15-20 Starship launches for refueling. Musk, of course, insists that 4-8 launches would be enough. And all this implies that nothing will fly to the Moon in 2027. I think they're hoping a war will break out and they'll postpone it indefinitely.

[Mikhail3]

Yes, yes! If it weren't for the shutdown, NASA would have gone! Ah! Bam!! But those damned bureaucrats shut down the working system.... NASA definitely needs a reason for its Aphrodite. The right decision was to choose the name of an admitted whore. Don't expect loyalty here. They won't succeed, because from the beginning, all the smart people understood it was impossible. Neither the US nor China... no one will be able to land on the Moon now, our technological level as a civilization is insufficient for such a task.
And given the undeniable fact that we've failed to build effective systems of global governance, it seems our civilization won't be landing on the moon at all. Not at all. It's unlikely we'll even maintain this technological level. The regression has already begun...

[sagitovich]

This is the work of aliens on 3i Atlas; they staged a statedown so that NASA would not track their activities in the region of our solar system.

[snow mountain]

Dunno on the Moon is much better than the Americans

[single-n]

It's an ANNUAL pastime for them. It's like the start of the heating season here. Everyone sits around and whines about how there's no money and everything's gone to hell. But somehow, nothing collapsed here or there, and no one died. It seems the level of propaganda journalism has plummeted. Is it really that bad at the front?

[Maikcg]

Or they could have taken a second job, selling tacos and hot dogs at a market stall. And kept Artemis going without funding.

[Umpteenth]

How are we doing? Maybe we should take care of ourselves?