{"id":125618,"date":"2024-11-14T05:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125618"},"modified":"2024-11-14T05:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:04:11","slug":"it-sounds-like-nasas-moon-rocket-might-be-getting-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125618","title":{"rendered":"It Sounds Like NASA&#8217;s Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p>NASA&#8217;s plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon in over half a century, is on thin ice.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Ars Technica<\/em> senior space reporter Eric Berger&#8217;s insider sources, there&#8217;s an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SciGuySpace\/status\/1856522880143745133\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">at least 50-50<\/a>&#8221; chance that the rocket &#8220;will be canceled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not Block 1B. Not Block 2,&#8221; he added, referring to the variant that was used during NASA&#8217;s uncrewed Artemis I test flight in 2022 and a more powerful design with a much higher translunar injection payload capacity, respectively. &#8220;All of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, as Berger himself points out, we&#8217;re still far &#8220;from anything being settled.&#8221; Nonetheless, the reporter&#8217;s sources have <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-employee-spacex-starship\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">historically been highly reliable<\/a>, suggesting the space agency may indeed be getting cold feet about continuing to pour billions of dollars into the non-reusable rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The SLS has already seen its fair share of budget overruns and many years of delays. In a 2022 interview, former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/lori-garver-nasa-sls\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">told <em>Futurism<\/em><\/a> that the project is simply &#8220;not sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rocket platform has become a political football, going well past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/nasas-sls-rocket-is-6-billion-over-budget-and-six-years-behind-schedule-091432515.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">$6 billion over budget<\/a> and over half a decade behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be direct,&#8221; former NASA administrator Michael Griffin told the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee during a January hearing on the space agency&#8217;s Artemis program, as <a class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2024\/01\/former-nasa-administrator-hates-artemis-wants-to-party-like-its-2008\/\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">quoted by\u00a0<em>Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;In my judgment, the Artemis Program is excessively complex, unrealistically priced, compromises crew safety, poses very high mission risk of completion, and is highly unlikely to be completed in a timely manner even if successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, the rocket has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-artemis-reaches-moon\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">been launched only once<\/a>, as part of NASA&#8217;s inaugural Artemis mission in 2022, but damage sustained by the agency&#8217;s Orion spacecraft <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-keeping-issue-moon-rocket-secret\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">has given officials pause<\/a> about its ability to safely send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.nasa.gov\/office-of-inspector-general-oig\/audit-reports\/nasas-management-of-the-mobile-launcher-2-project\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">August report<\/a> by NASA&#8217;s Office of Inspector General (OIG), even just the price of the <em>tower<\/em> designed to launch rockets starting with Artemis IV, which is tentatively scheduled for 2028, has ballooned to a whopping $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued aerospace giant Boeing has also encountered plenty of headwinds with its contributions to the launch platform. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.nasa.gov\/office-of-inspector-general-oig\/nasas-management-of-space-launch-system-block-1b-development\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">separate September report<\/a> by the OIG, the SLS&#8217; Block 1B configuration, which is being built by Boeing, was found to be <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-inspector-boeing-work-moon-rocket\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">woefully behind and way over budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found an array of issues that could hinder SLS Block 1B&#8217;s readiness for Artemis IV including Boeing\u2019s inadequate quality management system, escalating costs and schedules, and inadequate visibility into the Block 1B\u2019s projected costs,&#8221; the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate, the SLS is a <em>non<\/em>-reusable rocket, which means that NASA will have to build entirely new rocket stages for each upcoming Artemis mission. That&#8217;s in stark contrast to SpaceX&#8217;s fully reusable Starship, which the space agency is <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-render-spacex-starship-moon-surface\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">still hoping to tap<\/a> for Artemis III, the first crewed trip to the Moon&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>If NASA does indeed give up on the SLS, Berger <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SciGuySpace\/status\/1856538263915225194\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">suggests<\/a> that the agency may have to get creative by &#8220;launching Orion on one rocket&#8221; such as SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon Heavy, and then &#8220;docking with a (separately launched) [United Launch Alliance] Centaur V and boosting it to the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether such a Plan B is even on the table,\u00a0though,\u00a0is unclear at best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly the people who will ultimately make this decision aren&#8217;t even in place yet,&#8221; Berger wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SciGuySpace\/status\/1856529449061106132\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">followup tweet<\/a>, likely referring to the incoming Trump administration. &#8220;But there is a big desire for big changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on the SLS:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-keeping-issue-moon-rocket-secret\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-sls-moon-rocket-might-be-canceled\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon in over half a century, is on thin ice. 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