NASA Astronauts in Space Still Tweeting Despite Shutdown

NASA astronauts are still able to tweet from space, despite the ongoing government shutdown.

Space agency programs have all but come to a standstill since the government shutdown started on Oct. 1, but astronauts Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins continue to send a steady stream of social media posts from the International Space Station. Hopkins even posted photos of an eerie space cloud created by a Russian missile test launch on Thursday.

Hopkins and Nyberg have both sent out photos and updates from their Twitter handles, @AstroIllini and @AstroKarenN, respectively, but neither has commented on the ongoing shutdown, which began Oct. 1 on Earth Read more...