CNN —Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability Office.
The report does not name which officials — or how many — at NASA made such claims.
That plan includes efforts to “stabilize the flight schedule,” increase efficiencies, “encourage innovation” and “adjust acquisition strategies to reduce cost risk,” according to GAO.
That’s expected to be followed by Artemis III, the first attempt to return American astronauts to the moon since the Apollo program.
But while NASA “partially concurred,” the agency “has not yet implemented this recommendation,” the GAO report said.
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