Senior NASA officials have told government auditors that at current costs the space agency’s Artemis moon landing program “is unaffordable,” according to a federal audit report just released.
The space agency “does not plan to measure production costs,” the GAO report said, but “cost transparency” is needed given the billions in tax dollars being spent for future Artemis missions.
Artemis is NASA’s name for a program whose goal is putting “the first woman and first person of color on the Moon.” The name comes from the Greek goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, namesake for America’s first moon program. NASA and others in the scientific community want to return to the moon to explore and set up a base in the southern hemisphere where there is evidence of ice. Ice can be broken down into oxygen and hydrogen used in rocket fuel and in other ways.
The report’s opening letter to Senate and House appropriations committees notes that SLS evolved from NASA’s Constellation lunar exploration program. Constellation’s closing by the Obama administration in 2010 put hundreds of government and contractor employees out of work in Alabama, Texas, California and other states. Some of those states had powerful congressional representation.
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