{"id":195327,"date":"2024-08-28T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasas-moon-launcher-is-in-big-trouble"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:23:27","slug":"nasas-moon-launcher-is-in-big-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasas-moon-launcher-is-in-big-trouble","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Moon Launcher Is in Big Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-moon-launcher-is-in-big-trouble2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports that each of NASA\u2019s Artemis launches could cost as much as $4.1 billion\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cCosts going up faster than the tower,\u201d self-described internet rocket scientist Scott Manley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DJSnM\/status\/1534535159294197761\" class=\"\">joked at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NASA used its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/final_-_mobile_launcher_1_fact_sheet.pdf\" class=\"\">Mobile Launcher 1<\/a> for its inaugural \u2014 albeit uncrewed \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-artemis-reaches-moon\" class=\"\">Artemis mission in late 2022<\/a>. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IG-20-013.pdf\" class=\"\">2020 audit<\/a>, the tower, which was originally built for NASA\u2019s canceled Constellation program, cost $234 million to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports that each of NASA\u2019s Artemis launches could cost as much as $4.1 billion\u2026 \u201cCosts going up faster than the tower,\u201d self-described internet rocket scientist Scott Manley joked at the time. NASA used its Mobile Launcher 1 for its inaugural \u2014 albeit uncrewed \u2014 Artemis mission in late 2022. According to a 2020 audit, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}