NASA's rushed timeline for the Artemis moon mission is pretty much kaput.
in late 2017, which entailed new lunar missions slated to begin in 2025 at the earliest. In fact, most people thought 2028 was more reasonable for the first launch, Logsdon says. Then, in 2019, Pence announced that the missions would begin even earlier, in 2024.Yet “NASA has to salute their bosses,” Logsdon says. “If Pence says 2024…then NASA says ‘Yes, sir, we’ll work towards 2024.’” He doubts anybody at NASA ever believed that timeline.
Smith says she thinks the Inspector General had a more nuanced point: That NASA isn’t being transparent about Artemis’s costs. The Artemis missions are an extension of a Bush-era space program started in 2004, which then became the Constellation program, which then became Artemis. The goals weren’t always the same, either. “Between 2011 and 2016 this was a program to go to Mars,” Logsdon says.Trump had talked about going to Mars
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