Anonymous22 days ago
A NASA Office of Inspector General report released March 10, 2026 warns that neither SpaceX's Starship nor Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander will be ready on schedule, flagging critical crew safety risks including the inability to rescue stranded astronauts from the lunar surface. The findings arrive weeks after NASA restructured the entire Artemis program, pushing the first lunar landing from 2027 to 2028 and converting Artemis III into a low-Earth orbit technology demonstration — the latest in a pattern of delays that has seen America's return to the Moon slip by years while costs approach $18 billion.