NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere
The Artemis program — years behind schedule and billions over budget — should have taxpayers and presidents demanding answers.
Failure to launch.
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There are government boondoggles, and then there’s NASA’s Artemis program.
More than a half century after Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, Artemis was intended to land astronauts back on the moon. It has so far spent nearly $100 billion without anyone getting off the ground, yet its complexity and outrageous waste are still spiraling upward. The next US president should rethink the program in its entirety.