fox in early two thousand and fourteen he's the recipient of eighteen honorary doctorates and the nasa distinguished service medal as the highest award given by nasa to a non-government citizen before anything else i want a group with a lot of guys not one want to be an astrophysicist. i don't know where you grew up . the brooklyn plays you go i actually grew up in bronx the bronx and his whole impala who he want to be a four star general you want to be honest it's when you got into it in the city this you don't have a relationship with the sky you know you know how did you choose one of the building there there's back then there was smog and pollution so yeah it was a first visit to the hayden planetarium really that i now direct as a kid as a kid as a kid i was i when kids in new york go to have you on at some point you go through a school trip and i guess it doesn't hit everybody the same way but it hit me sitting there in the chair the lights went out the stars came out and and i think the universe chose me after that really i don't think i had any say in them so right then you nee

nasa was here first and the community sprung up around it.very aspect of the area are tied to the economy of workers who depend on their paychecks from nasa, so already we're hearing from business owners and restaurant owner telling me yesterday he is very concerned not only because he expects to lose business, but he cares about the people here. they have seen a lot through the years. and morgan i should mention too about the resilience of this community. in 2011 when the shuttle program was retired that took with it 6700 workers. a was a hard hit to the community, but it has strung back since and most of the people i talked to say they will survive this as well. >> thanks so much. >>> at the same time the government is closing its doors today, health care insurance exchanges are rolling out across the country. it provides access to insurance for millions of uninsured americans. individuals and small businesses can shop for plans online and each state offers different coverage options based on household income. beesy how many people are expe

a dream internship has turned into a nightmare at nasa ames in mountain view. not only were students lost, but what are they gains perhaps in the process? >> the best and brightest students worked very hard to get these internship, but with the shutdown, not only did they lose their internship, they lost their paychecks and then their housing. then silicon opportunity came knocking. with an old school bulletin board posting and a new school tweet, a nasa intern in minnesota displaced by the federal government shutdown put out a call for help. and with just a few key strokes, silicon valley's entrepreneurial community was mobilized. they start eed pairing displace interns with silicon valley companies. >> we've placed a lot with volunteers and now we' trying t get them in uh internships to pay them for the duration of the

nasa fulfills the expression of that curiosity. in a song don't tell me you've never walked out at night and looked up and just wondered in a stupor how far away the stars are what they're made of other is the life out there how did it all begin how's it going to end it's kennedy said we go mad we made to explore but is it more important. so that's my lens that's why i do it so now you want it practical yeah that's fine but we can get practical when i think of space i think of a seductive force on a saw especially in the educational pipeline that stimulates people to want to study science engineering math and technology the stem fields of order that right so i think knowledge engineering math and that when you do that whether or not you land in space in a space activity you have otherwise stoke it's the population with people who think differently from others when we for example if if a hurricane is coming what's the first thing you say oh let's run but i talk in the paper buy up all the water from the convenience store yeah that's

. >> that federal shutdown shutdown the internship program at nasa ames.ey lost their paychecks and their housing at moffett field. where the government failed them, the silicon valley community is stepping in to help. a cry for help on the bulletin board will get you on to twitter and on to the silicon valley entrepreneurial community radar. a nasa intern from minnesota who was displaced by the federal government shutdown put out that call for help and mountain view's hacker dojo. it's part work space and community center where the director of development immediately started trying to connect those interns displaced from nasa ames with entrepreneurs who are look for the right talent. she herself is a former nasa intern and says the fact that the government shut down cost some of the best and brightest students those internships of a lifetime is a crime. >> when i was in college, i was dead broke. for me, i would have been 3,000 miles from home and you can't even fly home because you don't know what day you'll be demanded back atç work. these kids are in

three men chosen from thousands of applicants are part of nasa's newest class of astronauts.t the smithsonian's udvarhasse museum in chantilly, virginia, and learn what it takes to become one of nasa's elite. the odds were astronomical, a pool of 6100 applicants vying to become a team of eight astronauts. >> and i was pinching myself going, okay, this is real. this is real. >> reporter: meet our three local astronauts ready to take off for the johnson space center in houston and a new life. >> he is actually the leader of the pack. >> reporter: they will never forget that moment so many kids dream of when they each got the phone call from nasa that would change their lives. >> you know, my heart's pounding through my chest. it choked me up immediately. >> reporter: they represent the army, air force and navy. andrew morgue morgan a he is an er doctor around flight surgeon for the army. he is getting ready to trade in scrubs for a space suit and years of intense training, just like this astronaut class before him. >> water survival, flight training, robot innings, extra activi

that means 600 of nasa's 18,000 employees were working today. greg junaman heads the union that represents the largestly number of nasa employees as well as tens of thousands. the navy, army corps of engineers and department of engineers. thank you for being with us. i think i just need to make this real to my viewers. what does it mean that 97% of nasa is shutdown? what's the implication? >> the implications for the american people is, we are spending a great deal of money on projects that are in the system right now. currently, there is a mars rover sitting on another planet. i am not sure if there is a parking lot on mars. if there is, that's where the mars rover is sitting. this thing can only sit for so long without being worked on, but nothing is happening with it. currently, as you know, we shut down the space shuttle system because, you know, it was a 30--year-old project. well, something new come along. space launch system multipley purpose crew vehicle. the main work on those is being done in texas. >> that's shut down. we have the jim

nasa launches a learjet and an er2, modeled after the spy plane. the men and women are learning more about climate change and the role that humans play in it. 9 a.m., everyone seated, and it's wheels up. we're flying right into clouds and storms. it's a bumpy ride with lots of turbulence. >> it looks like the clouds are up ahead. >> reporter: we just took off an hour ago, and the scientists went right to work. all sorts of instruments that are doing some incredible science. we have several missions for today. one of the first things we're doing is flying over the gulf of mexico. and there, we're going to be testing convection in the clouds and pollution. another thing that makes this different, the passengers are in charge. >> what we would like to do is go to the west of that. >> reporter: they tell the crew where they want to go, and what altitude, sometimes flying over an area several times. >> we can fly a structure and repeatedly fly over it manly, and get to know on a manual level and a broad area of ground what's happening. >> >> reporter: w

techknow featuring nasa's lab in the sky is next. check us out ating aljazeera.com. >> hello and welcome. i'm phil torrez, here to talk about innovations that are going to change lives. we're testing the intersection of hardware and humanity. rax is a neuroscientist. she has the invocation of bamboo and carbon. mar inkta davidson is a biologist specializing in ecologist and evolution. and i'm phil torrez. i'm an entomologist. but i'm over america for a very bad ride. how bad is our air? that's our team. now let's do some science. >> hi guys welcome back to another week of techknow where we're going to show you some pretty fun innovations in science. i'm here with marita and rachelle. hi, nasa seekers mission, this is a gc-8, loaded with millions of dollars of equipment measuring the air as we're flying through the gulf. it was a pretty incredible experience. let's take a look. ists 7:30 in the morning and -- it's 7:30 in the morning. and hangar 9 is buzzing with excitement. >> any last questions about what we're going to be doing tod

parts of museums have been closed over eight hundred thousand people have received furlough notices nasa has essentially shuttered the list goes on seventeen hours into the shutdown and congress is still no closer to a resolution in fact we might be moving in the exact opposite direction the senate voted today to reject the house's request to hold formal talks on a stopgap spending bill in a conference committee that stopgap measure would have been a six week spending bill to fund the government but also would have kept the congress the debate in congress going essentially kicking the can down the road president obama also weighed in on the shutdown. i will not negotiate over congress' responsibility to pay bills it's already racked up i'm not going to allow anybody to drag the good name of the united states of america through the mud just to refight a settled election or extract ideological demands nobody gets to hurt our economy and millions of hardworking families over a law you don't like there are a whole bunch of things that i'd like to see passed through congress that the house re

obviously there is also the furlough of nasa workers, i think 97% of nasa workers are furloughed.nd the space shuttle is no more. do you think there is any part of the hype of this movie that could end up drumming up renewed support for nasa or making a whole generation, new generation interested in space travel? >> jake, i sure hope so. that's really my greatest hope out of this. we do have people in space, we have two americans right now, three russian cosmonauts, it's a great space program. a movie like this really increases people's awareness. after you see the movie, go find out what we're really doing in space. because that's exciting, too. it's hard for nasa sometimes to get those positive messages out because we are so busy doing our regular jobs, maybe a movie like this, even though it's somewhat fictional, will increase awareness of what is actually going on in space. hopefully inspire kids. i was inspired by space movies when i was a younger person. i think it will inspire a lot of young people as well. >> you're not a film critic, obviously, by training. give us your t

nasa - it's continuing in its mission. the director of the johnson space center issued a letter to employees urging them to hit the ground running. they have a quick deadline approaching on november 6th. a russian rocket will carry supply astronauts to the international space station, and thatta must be prepared to support that mission. >> the budget deal didn't just reopen the government, it authorised nearly $3 billion for a controversial dam project on the ohio river. critics are calling it pure pork. jonathan martin has that story. >> the u.s. army corp of engineers is in the middle of a big project along a busy waterway. it's replacing locks and dams on the ohio river built 90 years ago. >> looks like they are literally falling apart. >> and if it does full apart shippers will have to find another way to move the 90 tonnes of goods that pass through the stretch of the ohio. the project is under scrutiny because the senate bill that ended the shutdown allows congress to spend a total of $3 billion on the olmsted. >> th

el proyecto de la estacion espacial de la nasa siente los efectos del cierre parcial del gobierno federalen:. la policia del distrito de columbia esta tras la pista de dos vandalos por haber cometido destruccion a una propiedad privada... ... en virginia extiende el plazo final para que los residente puedan pagar alguno impuestos a la propiedad de los autos... ...este viernes en nuestro segmento preguntale al consul...el funcionario de peru, cesar augusto jordan palomino nos visita. tienes preguntas para el. escribele a nuestro correo electronico noticias dc @ entravision punto com. o en nuestro espacio en facebook bajo noticias dc. ... cual es el impacto del cierre del gobierno federal en la nasa, la agencia nacional de investigacion espacial?... miguel angel antonanzas nos lo cuenta... este es el mensaje explicativo del canal de televisiÓn de la agencia espacial al pu Úblico...no habrÁ ima genes de ningÚn tipo, tampoco en la web. 600 personas siguen trabajando en tareas de coordinaciÓn de la misiÓn espacial mientras el resto...mÁs de 17.000 se han quedado en casa. ¿pero quÉ pasa con los

tell us how is this shutdown affecting nasa as operations at the moment. well i think right at the moment those individuals that are supporting the international space station are continuing to work that control center in houston the johnson space center still is online and it is manned by a nasa flight controllers so that work is still going on and the crews that are going to be flying up to this race station it in near future are still training so it's really affecting more of the support people that will have an effect down the line what about the crews in space then would they be affected in any way would any compromise perhaps be made to the safety. no not at the moment because the control center and mosque the control center in use and the boat they're both manned and so they have the support of those flight controllers and they can call on any engineers to handle any of the problems as they come up on a comment on the nasa watch website suggests the agency didn't need to shut down some of its seven seas and what was trying to make a political statem

nasa ames also bowing out because of the shut doup. nasa ames, the navy shipyard from pearl harbor had to cancel their booths. it's not a good day. >> the fall career fair runs until 7:00 tonight. >> it's a familiar script. bitter negotiations with the looming b.a.r. to strike. so what happened today? any room for optimism here, jody? >> reporter: well, both sides are taking baby step, but with just eight days to go, baby steps are just not going to cut it. some real give and take is needed. and while some intense negotiations are are taking place inside this building, a lot still needs to be done. both sides remain tens of millions of dollars -- >> still $100 million across. >> it's a big difference between where we are and where they are. >> and time is running out for b.a.r.t. and its unions to bridge that $100 million gap and reach a deal before b.a.r.t. workers hit the picket line. >> it's eight days away from the end of contract. we should be really serious about bargaining. >> reporter: but while the two sides battle it out, sta

dale is a furloughed nasa engine near and joins me now. mr. holes, welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> so how come you have been furloughed, which i would imagine would be pretty irritating for anybody but you're a big supporter of the guy that's basically caused it? >> well, i mean, as for why i'm furloughed is because 97% of nasa has been shutdown and i'm part of that 97% of the 17% of the government and has been shut down for this. senator cruz just voiced an argument. he did not shut down the government. that's something i believe the american people did by notifying their representatives in congress. >> however people may quibble over the details of obama care, for people as they have done today to publicly describe it as the worst thing to hit america since slavery, what do you think of that? >> well, you know, i'm pretty simple guy. you know, when you get taxed to breathe in this country, i think you went a little far. >> well, i'm glad you said that. i think the only way through this, senator cruz is making a big name for himse

is grabing the attention of nasa. "beer while known to most people as a party drink actually has some medical properties" in december, michal's idea will leave the classroom and arrive at the international space station. it's there astronauts will find out how well the beer ferments in space... something the 7th grader hopes could be used to help in a medical emergency. "you can clean wounds like that, it could be a reliable amount of water that won't contaminate you." the project ile unique is exactly what the stem school, a facility that focuses on science and math, in highlands ranch wants to see more of. "what a perfect way to show them this is why... this is why you have to learn how to write a lab report becau you may have to write a real proposal one day." for teachers like sharon combs, seeing a student's imagination come alive is what it's all about. "just the whole idea i've got an 11 year old putting beer together in my classroom... that was pretty special." now it's up to nasa to get the test-tues into spa

>> reporter: about 50 furloughed government workers-- many of them scientists-- marched on nasa's ames research center in california this afternoon demanding the right to work. >> congress may think it's okay to get paid and to do nothing but we don't expect that. >> reporter: they say they're not worried about missed paychecks, their concern is what the country may lose forever while they're being kept out of their offices and laboratories. math linton is a nasa sign security specialist. >> i'm in a continuing conflict with hackers from other places who want to ruin your day, disrupt your project and steal your data. >> reporter: instead of watching for those hacker attacks on nasa computers, linton has been sitting at home worrying. >> if you were the c.i.a. and a country that you were at odds with sent all of their federal work force home, what would you do? would that be a good time for you to start poking holes in their defenses? i certainly think the answer would be yes. >> reporter: cyber security is a hot field right now. on furlough, linton has been fending off silicon valley

with that the nasa portfolio today? has biology, chemistry, physics, geology, planetary geologist, aerospace engineers, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers. all the stem fields with science, technology, engineering and math represented in the nasa portfolio, held the nasa pumps that, is the fly wheel that society taps for innovation. >> over the last 15 years booktv has aired 40,000 programs about nonfiction books and authors. booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> this weekend booktv is live from austin for the texas book festival, coverage starts today at 11:00 eastern and includes two panels looking back at the november '63 assassination of jfk. sunday's coverage starts at noon and includes alan wiseman on our future on planet earth and looking at the texas wind power industry. the texas book festival live this weekend in booktv on c-span2. don't forget you have a few days to post your comments on a book club selection walking with the wind, congressman john lewis on the early years of the civil rights moveme

nasa's amy mainzer has been developing one, too. find asteroids by using infra- red sensors that detect heat rather than light. but a telescope like this would cost roughly half a billion dollars, and so far neither the united states nor any other government has committed significant funds. so the b612 foundation is trying to raise the money privately . by reaching out to individual donors. >> lu: i don't think there's any other global catastrophe, global scale catastrophe that we can prevent. this is the only one that i know of we can solve this particular issue for the cost of building a freeway overpass. i mean, and that's literally what it is. >> cooper: but nobody has been killed by an asteroid. >> lu: yeah. and what i'm saying is that you can't wait till that point afterwards, when you say, "we should have done it." you have to think of this as cosmic roulette, right? the phrase that they have in vegas is that the house always wins and, you know, the sort of secret to all this is that we're not the house. at some point, you kn

>> reporter: about 50 furloughed government workers, many of them scientists, marched on nasa's ames research center in california wednesday, demanding the right to work. >> congress may think it's okay to get paid and to do nothing, but we don't expect that. >> reporter: they say they're not worried about missed paychecks. their concern is what the country may lose forever while they're being kept out of their offices and laboratories. matt litton is a nasa cyber security specialist. >> every day i'm in a continuing conflict with hackers from other places who want to ruin your day, disrupt your project, and steal your data. >> reporter: instead of working on nasa computers, litton has been sitting at home worrying. >> if you were the cia and a country that you were at odds with sent all your federal workers home, what would you do? would that be a good time to go poking into their defenses? i would think yes. >> reporter: cyber security is a hot field right now. on furlough, litton has been fending off silicon valley job offers. >> i received about five and it's getting harder every

look at the nasa portfolio today. it's got biology, chemistry, physics, geology, aerospace engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, all the s.t.e.m. fields, science, technology, engineering and math, represented in the nasa portfolio. a healthy nasa pumps that but a healthy nasa is a flywheel that society casts for innovation. >> over the past 15 years booktv has aired over 40,000 programs about nonfiction books and authors. booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> taking a look at what's ahead this morning. aske..

and a rounding error is the nasa budget, gene. just appalling. >> lou, you know, you know, what? 4 or 5 years ago we had a program called conis tha consten getting us to the balloon o -- o the moon by 2020. on a permanent basis, we had the shuttle program. today we have a private sector, it is not really, they are entrepreneurs but they are using our tax money to do what they do, god bless them, i wish them all of the success in the world, so far all we've been able to do is take clean laundry on the space station, let's get america back in space. you know it was not 12 guys who walked on the moon. it was you know half million to million americans backed by 250 other million who got us there. you know what happened to that part of -- my life, and of life of so many other people, who work with the space program. lou: and our best and our brightest, i mean, as i have said many time, the astronauts for me, my childhood, they were migrate heroes from the -- great mereos from the beginning, my stomach churns when i look at that budget,

dale is a furloughed nasa engine near and joins me now. mr. holes, welcome to you. >> thanks for having me. >> so how come you have been furloughed, which i would imagine would be pretty irritating for anybody but you're a big supporter of the guy that's basically caused it? >> well, i mean, as for why i'm furloughed is because 97% of nasa has been shutdown and i'm part of that 97% of the 17% of the government and has been shut down for this. senator cruz just voiced an argument. he did not shut down the government. that's something i believe the american people did by notifying their representatives in congress. >> however people may quibble over the details of obama care, for people as they have done today to publicly describe it as the worst thing to hit america since slavery, what do you think of that? >> well, you know, i'm pretty simple guy. you know, when you get taxed to breathe in this country, i think you went a little far. >> well, i'm glad you said that. i think the only way through this, senator cruz is making a big name for himse

nasa was here first.hen did the community spring up around the federal agency to support the astro nouts and workers there. it's none more apparent than in frenchies restaurant, a locally owned italian airport is popular with employees. on a given day this day would be packed with nasa employees. on the first day of furlough, where 97% of the workforce was told to go home without pay, this place is significantly quieter. here is what the owner has to say. >> it's unfortunate that we are in a situation where the government is shut down, and the people that are paying the price are the workers that ought to support the country's ongoing space program and the other activities that the government workers here are involved in. it's not the way you ought to operate. >> this is where we spoke with a nasa employee who said that tomorrow would have been her 30th anniversary of service with the space agency. instead she's been told to pack up and go home. >> in a week i'll be fine. if it's a month, then, you know,

i'm minutes away from boarding this plain with nasa experimentalists. it is a nasa gc-8, trying to measure the pollution and the atmosphere. it's a three pronged attack. the signs of the tc 8, after the u 2 spy plane. the er 2 application is a sight to see. everything about it has the feeling of a flight to space. the men who fly the plane undergo special training and wear a pressurized flight soot. several weather probes collect the information and beam it back to earth. >> seated, door closed. >> the men and women are learning more about climate change and the role humans play in it. >> ready for taxi. >> airport bound. >> it's 9:00 a.m., everyone's seated and it's wheels up. on board, it's like a candy shop of technology inside this flying laboratory. they've got all the high tech tools from lasers to spectrometers and canisters and gases everything to measure the chemistry in the sky. the man at the center of it all, mission director walt kline. why is this mission so important? >> because if we don't do anything about it we're just going to continu

this plane with nasa experimentalists. this is about 28 different instruments on the outside, all trying to measure the pollution and atmosphere. >> it's a three pronged attack, besides the dc8, nasa launches a lear jet and e.r.2, modeled after the u2 spy plane. the men and women are learning more about climate change and the role humans play in it. >> >> it's 9:00 a.m., everyone seated, and it's wheels up. we are flying right into clouds and storms. it's a bumpy ride and lots of turbulence. >> everybody grab a seat. it looks like clouds coming up ahead. have a seat right now. i even hit my head while i was trying to get back to my seat. there's things occurring in the air that you just can't see. we dropped like a rock and then you experience 0g's. >> we're two hours into the mission, flying at 200 feet over the gulf of mexico. at this flight, we can fly directly over ships and rigs to measure emissions being put in the atmosphere. >> if we don't do anything about it, we're going to continue wrecking the air. the job is t

a healthy nasa pumps that. a healthy nasa is a flywheel that society casts for innovation. >> over the past 15 years of booktv has aired over 40,000 programs about nonfiction books and authors. booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> had of the next round of talks, george washington university hosted regional experts were discussion monday. the former iranian presidential candidate and a former official at the american embassy in iran took part, coming on prospects for an agreement. the impact of presidential ronnie's election -- >> it's a pleasure to be here to talk the possibility of having a normal, peaceful relationship with iran. and it seems to me, and i'll declare my opinion at the outset that this is the best chance we've had since the revolution. it's 34 years now. and that we should make every effort to see if they can work. and i'll go through what that effort would entail. first is the nuclear question. does iran have any nuclear weapons? the answer them all intelligence sources and from the iaea, and f

nasa has a way to reel an asteroid and put it around the moon.lan to do it. >> reporter: amid the talk of an asteroid hitting the earth, nasa has a serious proposal. why not go into space to try to capture one to learn more about them. this is how they plan to do it. a powerful rocket would take off from earth and launch an asteroid detect vehicle that would shoot off into space. now, it wouldn't actually go beyond the stars. this does give a sense that it would go many, many hundreds of thousands of miles off into space, looking for a very small target. the asteroids they are after is only about this big, as big as two or three pick-up trucks. it would be rotating slowly. it's a challenge because they have to stop it before they transport it. let me scale it down to size. as the redirect vehicle comes toward it, it will deploy a giant space bag. over a period of hours, ease it over the rotating asteroid and squeeze down on it to stop the rotation. then the whole thing will take off, plying back toward the earth, more importantly to the moon wher

i could go through the nasa centers. everything that you said i agree with but you need to put a fire under your exec tickses. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator nelson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the testifiers and express our gratitude on behalf of the committee for your public service. i know, it's difficult to run an enterprise and certainly difficult to be in public service in any situation. under the sequester, we know it's been terribly difficult. it's beyond the pale in a lot of ways. it's as difficult as it is for folks to be home, it's very, very challenging for you to be there and not able to bring your folks back. we want to thank you on behalf of the committee. my first question for doctor. i'm concerned, i think it may be one of the things that mark has been talking about over a number of weeks. and actually years. that is remaining competitive with respect to the next generation of scientists. i like to offer insight -- that the young promising scientists may be having to go tr

it's not only, you know, our health but also research and other things like nasa, right?big hit, you know, we do have five astronauts on the national space station supported by 600 workers at mission control but the other 16,000 nasa workers will be furloughed. one of the things i do forecasting the weather i can't do my job without my government. we have thousands of national weather service employees employed by n ochoaa and they w be employed and stay staffed. they're considered essential employees. >> here's what's frightening to me. for anyone who is about to take a flight somewhere, the faa is going to furlough about 3,000 safety airline safety inspectors so these are the people that check the airplanes and check the pilots, as well. so, you know, i don't know how you feel about getting on a plane while the government is closed down. >> the u.s. department of agriculture is going to continue with all the inspections for the meat, the poultry and egg. >> and you still have to pay your taxes. don't think that's not going to happen. the good news the audit office is cl

is nasa prepared for the if and when? back to danger. remember last february, there was a relatively small asteroid, about 20 meters in diameter, came to earth's atmosphere, created a blast, a shock wave over russia and blew out glass. >> i remember that. >> i think today people are a little more worried than they used to be. as far as movies at "armageddon" and others where humans get to an asteroid, people are thinking about that right now, although there isn't any real plan to do so, i can tell you one thing. if we have a prediction an asteroid will hit earth 20 years from now that could cause global destruction, we'll be able to get our act together and figure out how to do that in 20 years. i have full confidence in my colleagues and peers and engineers at nasa to move an asteroid if they're required to. >> full destruction with a straight face you say this in 20 years but you're confident in nasa so i will be as well. sarah, from m.i.t., thank you so much for that. >> you're welcome. >> okay. >>> students, scramblin

instead 95% of nasa's employees, including those here at nasa research center were told to stay home until further notice with no paycheck and no end in sight to the crisis. >> house republicans made a show of it requesting a partial funding of the government just for the veterans affairs and national park service. >> there are some things that we can build on and agree on. >> senate democrats soundly rejected it calling it more games. >> just another wacky idea from the tea party dreven republicans. >> until they solve it, national landmarks all across the country will remain closed. that inclusd tours of alcatraz. now offering drink sfoeshls disappointing tourists. . >> you get a two for one. >> how long will it go on. >> until the republicans sober up or they turn the government back on. >> how long will that be? who knows because right now on capitol hill, snog going on. there is no serious movement toward any kind of solution right now. now, furloughed workers we talked to, they were just told, you know what, go home. turn off your government laptops and phones and do what every

there you have it, nasa, happy birthday.opefully the government will figure out it's spending bills to shoot for the stars instead of remaining grounded. that will do it for now. i am megan lopez. hello and welcome to "newsline." a north korea vice minister urged the united states to drop the hostile policy. >>. >>translator

nasa. this little agency is the one that has the most people furloughed as a percentage of the work force. 97% of the nasa employees are furloughed. since most of the nasa work is done by contractors, without the nasa supervisors there now, the contractors are being laid off. you take a place like the presiding officer's state of ohio, the glenn nasa research center, look at the impact to the people in that community. you take a major space center elsewhere, such as the johnson space center in houston, the kennedy space center in my sta state, look what it's doing to the lives of people. but remember that we have a mission that is going to mars that has a unique one time in two years launch window starting the middle of november into the first part of december. if that narrow three-week launch window is missed because of the lack of preparation of this spacecraft to launch, there's not another launch window for two years. because of that, we were able to get nasa to recall that team. they'

fortunatelys that nasa works with other centers to keep track of asteroids. 93% of the big ones have been identified and that's a good thing, because that means we have a good idea of what is going to be happening when. the smaller ones under a kill only thor -- kilometer could really do some damage. it would really disrupt civilization as we know it today. >> because the one in russia was only about 400 meters, which is less than half of a kilometer, and even though it didn't hit anybody, just the sonar boom that it caused injured more than a thousand people. is there anything we can do if we do identify an asteroid that is on a collision course? >> that's a really great question. there are things we can do, but the most important thing we have to be able to do is identify them early enough, because we need the time to actually remedy the situation. and one of the most interesting things that has been suggested is the idea of sending out a spacecraft that is essentially a big dump truck, and you dump something on one side of the asteroid and then let heating

most of you will resume your regular work schedules today but nasa goddard spice flight center open -- space flight