Human Return To Moon In 2024 ‘Highly Unlikely,’ NASA IG Audit Says

Mark Carreau April 20, 2021
Artist's concept of the SpaceX Starship human lander.
Credit: SpaceX
HOUSTON—It is “highly unlikely” that NASA will return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers in 2024 due to technical, budget and workplace constraints linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency’s inspector general (IG) says. The just-completed audit of the Artemis initiative began with the...
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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