NASA targets early Apr. for Moon mission
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Facing a series of major delays and budget overruns, NASA is re-engineering its efforts to return American astronauts to the moon.
NASA’s approach to managing the development of crewed lunar landers for Artemis has successfully controlled costs but not schedule.
NASA is sending the first Black and first female astronauts to the moon in an upcoming launch, marking the first journey to the moon in over 50 years.
At the core of Isaacman’s concerns is the low flight rate of the SLS rocket and Artemis missions. During past exploration missions, from Mercury through Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle program, NASA has launched humans on average about once every three months. It has been nearly 3.5 years since Artemis I launched.
The Starship rocket, developed by SpaceX, has accumulated delays of at least two years in its development program, after NASA selected this vehicle in 2021 to transport the astronauts' lunar landing module as part of the Artemis lunar program,