NASA’s program, which aims to make manned Moon Landing flights back to the Moon in 2024, may be delayed by two years.
NASA’s Moon Landing. In the report prepared by the NASA General Audit Office and published on the website, it was noted that the Space Launch System (SLS) program, which is maintained within the scope of the task named as Artemis, was struggling with cost and technical problems.
In the report, which pointed out that the current problems may affect NASA’s ambitious goals, “Each of the key element contracts to develop and build SLS has many technical difficulties and performance issues, resulting in over $2 billion in cost overruns and at least 2-year program delays. ” expressions were used.
Total cost will exceed $17 billion
“It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a major effort to speed up the lunar landing program is more difficult and expensive than expected first,” the report said, by the end of the fiscal year 2020, NASA will spend more than $17 billion for the program in question. expressions were included.
In the report, it was noted that in the SLS program started in 2010, the first target was planned as 2016, the history was constantly changing due to delays, and the last 2024 target could be postponed for two years.
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