Congress Adds New Challenges To NASA’s Artemis Plan

Mark Carreau January 06, 2021

Congress added $320 million more than the White House requested for Boeing’s Space Launch System to NASA’s fiscal 2021 budget. Some of the funds will further development of a more capable upper stage for the heavy rocket, called the Exploration Upper Stage.
Credit: Terry White/NASA

Uncertainty surrounds NASA’s Artemis initiative as it heads into the new year, with the program facing cost and technical challenges to the Trump administration’s directive to return humans to the Moon’s surface by 2024 and go on to Mars by the 2030s. The 2024 deadline appears to have all but...

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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