NASA Blames Blue Origin Lawsuit Over Contracts

NASA has pushed its intended moon landing date further out, now targeting a manned mission for 2025 at the earliest. Even the new date sounds optimistic, given recent realities in NASA Programs. Previously, in 2019, the Trump administration set what they believed was an attainable goal for the Artemis Program to establish human presence on the moon by 2024. Vice President Pence referred to it then as another space race, invoking memories of the original 1963 Apollo program that successfully landed on the moon in 1969. While the new target of a 2025 landing still falls into the rough time frame of the original Apollo project, there is a sense that America is not just racing against China to get ba