Sarah Lewin, associate editor for Space.com, discusses the recent government shutdown that caused delays at NASA over the weekend.
Lewin talks about the delays SpaceX might have faced with the Falcon Heavy and other projects had the government shutdown lasted any longer. The Falcon Heavy is set for test-firing this week and seeks to take its first test launch by the end of the month.
The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don't surprise scientists.
The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.
