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NASA's Artemis II mission successfully flew four astronauts around the Moon in April 2026, marking the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since 1972 — but a political battle over credit has obscured deeper questions about the program's $93 billion cost, a redesigned Artemis III that will no longer land on the Moon, and proposed budget cuts that would gut NASA's science missions. With the crewed lunar landing now pushed to 2028 at the earliest and China targeting 2030 for its own Moon landing, the margin in the new space competition continues to narrow.