NASA's Artemis Moon rocket is unsustainable 'at current cost levels', NASA officials told the US Government Accountability Office.
It also cites unnamed NASA officials stating that the program is unsustainable "at current cost levels," and adds that NASA "recognizes the need to improve the affordability."
These include efforts to "stabilize the flight schedule", "encourage innovation", and "adjust acquisition strategies to reduce cost risk," the GAO said. "Even I could not have imagined how late and how over budget it would be," she added, stating that "and [that was back] when it was supposed to be launching in 2016, and for less than half of what it has cost."
The report also states that the GAO suggested to NASA in 2014 that it should "develop a cost baseline that captures production costs" for missions using SLS Block I — the first iteration of the rocket — but the space agency has so far failed to do so.
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