- NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is still on schedule thanks to the tireless efforts of staff members that are working from home.
- The mission is scheduled to launch by August 5th, but if it misses its window, NASA will have to wait until 2022 for another launch attempt.
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When the novel coronavirus pandemic began impacting businesses and organizations in the United States, the scientific community couldn’t help but wonder how long it would take for NASA to be affected and how dramatic the impact might be. Once one NASA employee came down with COVID-19, NASA began to roll out its work-from-home orders and eventually ordered all staff to work from home unless they were considered “mission-critical.”
In a new blog post on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory blog, we get a glimpse at the people behind the Mars 2020 mission in their “new” workspaces. As the agency explains, the missions tight timeline means that there’s no opportunity for downtime, and working from home really is work for the bright minds that NASA assembled.
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