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NASA's Billion Dollar Artemis Spacesuits Won't Be Ready For A 2024 Moon Landing
NASA's Billion Dollar Artemis Spacesuits Won't Be Ready For A 2024 Moon Landing

NASA OIG: NASA’s Development of Next-Generation Spacesuits, NASA OIG “NASA’s current schedule is to produce the first two flight-ready xEMUs by November 2024, but the Agency faces significant challenges in meeting this goal. This schedule includes approximately a 20-month delay in delivery for the planned design, verification, and testing suit, two qualification suits, an ISS Demo suit, and two lunar flight suits. These delays- attributable to funding shortfalls, COVID-19 impacts, […]

  • NASA Watch
  • August 10, 2021