NASA is requiring employees involved in Artemis missions with contractors SpaceX and Blue Origin to stay on the job during the government shutdown, CNBC has learned.

Their work will be unpaid during the shutdown furlough, but employees should record their time, NASA Chief Human Capital Officer Kelly Elliott wrote in an email to staffers on Wednesday. NASA employees are expected to receive pay for their work after a reopening.

In a separate memo from Monday, NASA's acting finance chief, Steve Shinn, laid out details about missions that would be supported during a shutdown.

NASA will continue to support "planned operations" of the International Space Station, as well as any satellite mission that "is in the operations phase," Shinn wrote. He added that NASA would support "Artemis operatio

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