19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the agency’s Artemis I mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test ... the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy in preparation for Artemis I. SLS, Orion, and the ground systems at ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... OIG estimates total SLS costs, including those not being tracked against a commitment, at $18.3 billion assuming the Artemis 1 launch slips to 2021. Implement management policies for “greater visibility” into cost estimates and to “appropriately and...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
... Moon. “NASA is taking steps to establish a regular cadence of crewed missions to the surface of the Moon as part of the Artemis programme. The agency recently made a selection for a crewed demonstration to land the next American astronauts on the...
28 May 2021
US GAO report casts doubt on 2024 lunar landing
...risks are issues likely to push back the date of the Artemis III mission. “NASA has made some progress. But a ...NASA officials at the time. In comparison with other NASA projects, Artemis programmes have advanced at a faster pace, but even for those ...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
...about the imposed timescales for the country’s highly publicised Artemis 2024 mission. Bowersox has been reported as telling a...threaten to delay work on lunar landers needed for Artemis. Such bills usually prevent agencies from changing funding levels...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... today (Tuesday) that his space company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking to several thousand delegates Bezos, who received a standing...
