NASA back from shutdown

Finally, a new video from NASA Television, the first since NASA videos from just before the shutdown!

Back to Mission on This Week @NASA

With the government shutdown over, Administrator Charlie Bolden welcomed employees back to the work of NASA's mission. Bolden visited Goddard Space Flight Center with Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski for an update on several projects, including the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope. Bolden also visited Mississippi to thank employees at Stennis Space Center for their critical engineering and testing work on the agency's next generation rocket engines and the staff of the NASA Shared Services Center for their support of the agency during the shutdown. Also, While we were away, Cygnus Completes!, MAVEN in Waiting, SLS Tests, and More Arctic Sea Ice!

This was such a big deal that I featured above the fold in Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (NASA back from shutdown)on Daily Kos.

Not only did This Week @NASA return, so did Science at NASA.

ScienceCasts: The Effects of Space Weather on Aviation

Astronauts aren't the only ones who need to worry about solar flares. Ordinary air travelers can also be exposed to significant doses of radiation during solar storms. A new computer model developed by NASA aims to help protect the public by predicting space weather hazards to aviation.

I'm so happy, I'm going to post Professor Farnsworth for something other than low gas prices.