800,000 Public Servants Being Put On Indefinite Unpaid Leave

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The [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution"]Smithsonian Institution[/url] will shut down. Among the attractions that will be closed are the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History"]National Museum of Natural History[/url], the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Museum"]National Air and Space Museum[/url] and the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Zoological_Park_(United_States)"]National Zoological Park[/url]. Skeleton crews will be on site to provide security and to feed and care for the animals. The Natural History Museum and the Air and Space Museum are among the most visited museums in the world[/size][/font][/color]

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[b] National Aeronautics and Space Administration[size=1][[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_2013&action=edit&section=15"]edit[/url]][/size][/b]
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[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA"]NASA[/url] will furlough 98% of its staff, leaving fewer than 600 out of 18,000 employees on the job. NASA will continue to support the astronauts on the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station"]International Space Station[/url] and the agency will maintain spacecraft that have already launched. However, work with unmanned spacecraft will be minimal. According to NASA spokesman Allard Beutel, the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)"]Curiosity rover[/url] currently on Mars "will be put in a protective mode for the security of the rover, but no new data-gathering will take place.” The [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope"]Hubble Space Telescope[/url] will continue to operate, but analysis of the data it collects will cease. Work on any spacecraft that have not yet launched will stop[/size][/font][/color]