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HOUSTON – The 200 employees still working without pay at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have been invited to do extra work for free: cleaning the bathrooms and taking out the trash, the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday.
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A NASA official, identified by The Hill as Elizabeth Blome, tweeted a photo of a sign asking volunteers to clean the bathrooms once a week until the end of the government shutdown period. Funding for the Johnson Space Center guard contract was halted on Friday, the Chronicle newspaper reported.
"It's our reality at Johnson Space Center," Blome tweeted. "We now have no guard service while we work without pay to keep the International Space Station operating."
The largest shopping center@JohnCornynThe largest shopping center@SenTedCruzThe largest shopping center@RepBrianBabinThis is our reality at the Johnson Space Center. We now have no on-call service while we work without pay for the International Space Station to continue to operate#EndTheShutdown pic.twitter.com/QjDDpJuxwo
– Elizabeth Blome (@SpaceEliz) January 24, 2019
The Houston Space Center is home to the operations of the International Space Station mission and employees – who account for about 6% of the federal government's total staff – ensure that astronauts aboard the craft remain safe said the Chronicle.
Workers are invited to register to help "clean the toilets, wipe the seats, handles and handles of lavatory faucets with disinfectant wipes".
In addition to cleaning the bathrooms, employees were asked to get rid of garbage through their desks, says the message.
"Please, bring your personal trash near the brown trash (in front of the men's bathroom) so that we do not attract ants or rodents," says the panel.
Gloves will be provided to the workers, depending on the sign.
A spokesman for Native Resource Development, the custodian service that serves the Johnson Space Center, said trustees were still working on the site, but much less than normal, reported The Hill.
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