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NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon: "I can tell you what, I'll be damned if that is the story that we write."
“I can tell you what, I’ll be damned if that is the story that we write.”…
NASA is on track to conduct a lunar flyby mission in early 2026 (the agency is currently working toward a February launch date for Artemis II), and the administration will undoubtedly seek to promote this as evidence of success. To actually land on the Moon with Artemis III, NASA will need SpaceX to deliver a human-rated Starship vehicle, Axiom to complete spacesuits, and its own engineers to piece together and sign off on a complex plan that will be fraught with risk. A little more than five years ago, Vice President Mike Pence gave a rousing speech in Alabama, setting a goal of landing humans on the Moon by 2024 and laying the political groundwork for the Artemis Program and all that has followed.
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