NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is $6 Billion Over Budget, Claims Scathing New Report

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NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is $6 Billion Over Budget, Claims Scathing New Report
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An audit of the space agency's Artemis contracts is raising concerns over how much it's costing NASA to return humans to the Moon.

is projected to reach $93 billion from 2012 through 2025, of which the costs of SLS alone represent $23.8 billion spent through 2022. That’s $6 billion in cost increases for the rocket, in addition to six years in schedule delays above NASA’s original projection

NASA salvaged 16 RS-25 engines from retired Space Shuttles, of which four were used during Artemis 1. Once these run out, the space agency will

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