NASA has postponed its mission to put the first woman on the moon again, as NASA organizers say it is unlikely before 2026, and former President Donald Trump pushed NASA to return to the moon by 2024, but that fell back to 2025 last year, and currently It is postponed again.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin explained the details of his review of the mission in his speech at the House Space Subcommittee hearing on the Artemis program.
He also reviewed data from NASA, finding that each Artemis mission would cost at least $4.1 billion, and that’s just the cost of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule, which will carry astronauts from Earth to lunar orbit.
“We estimate that NASA will spend $53 billion on Artemis from 2021 to 2025, and on top of that we found that the first four Artemis missions will cost $4.1 billion per launch, which is a pretty big price to pay,” Martin said.