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NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down on April 10, 2026, completing the first crewed lunar flyby in over 50 years, while the Artemis III SLS core stage arrived at Kennedy Space Center just 17 days later. But a major mission redesign — stripping Artemis III of its planned lunar landing and pushing the first surface mission to Artemis IV in 2028 — raises pointed questions about the program's $66 billion price tag, its dependence on unproven commercial landers, and whether political geography, more than engineering, is keeping the program alive.