NASA Audit Finds Lapses In Commercial Lunar Payload Initiative

Illustration of Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander.

Credit: Astrobotic
HOUSTON—NASA’s initial efforts to incorporate the commercial space industry into the delivery of modest science and technology payloads to the Moon’s surface is overly optimistic, leading to cost increases and schedule delays, an agency inspector general’s (IG) audit says. NASA has deviated from its...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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