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Research Notes: Tracking NASA's Artemis Delays

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A Z Mackay
Nov 20, 2024
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Here’s what caught my attention: NASA announced Artemis in the mid-2010s with a vision of returning humans to the Moon by the end of the 2020s. By late 2024, timelines had slipped so far that even uncrewed missions were years behind. Was this normal aerospace complexity, or something deeper? A structural problem that kept repeating?

I started digging thr…

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