Gotta save that dough for Ukraine......................
Cue the Harry Mancini tune, “Moon Rover...”
How long before they cancel Artemis?
By constrast, the Falcon 9 cost $400 million to develop. It had an upper stage failure the other day, first F9-related failure since 2015, and the FAA suspended all F9 flights. Meanwhile, the FAA doesn't seem to have any problem with ULA/Boeing's simmering overdue overpriced Starliner failureS. I wonder why?
“We decided the money would be better spent on trying to get our astronauts off the space station.”
NASA is an organization in terminal decline to the point of uselessness. America needs to disband NASA, fire every one of its employees and then create a new agency and hire people from industry who have never worked for the government.
The ice under the Lunar poles makes it perhaps the most important real estate in the Solar System. It not only has obvious benefits for anyone stationed there but it could provide fuel for getting into the rest of the Solar System . Having to bring everything up from Earth is too costly to continue. You might say it is the ultimate gas station.
You got to not spend money to save money. How about the 450 million blown out the nations backside?? Ice on the moon. I thought it had no atmosphere?
Can’t fire the incompetents, so they scrap the program to get rid of people.
In terms of costs, NASA said it has so far spent about $450 million on the program. Discontinuing VIPER is expected to save the agency at least $84 million in development and additional operational costs.
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NASA officials split the saved funds among themselves
NASA has become pathetic. It’s NOT the NASA I grew up with.
The woke folks at NASA couldn’t decide the rover’s gender so they just cancelled the project.
What do they care? It’s not their money. There is always more.
This is not your father’s NASA, folks.
After wasting another $450 million taxpayer dollars, NASA scraps another project, payola was successfully completed though.
We’ve been gaslit since 1969. They killed Gus Grissom and team to silence his whistleblowing.
NASA once was able to send men to the moon and back now they can’t send a man to the woman’s bathroom without screwing it up. Houston we have a problem.
Looking for ice on the Lunar poles?!🤣🤣🤣🤣NASA can’t even get a pair of astronauts into low earth orbit safely. Their leaky spaceship may not be able to return to Earth and the astronauts may have to be rescued by The Russians or Elon….so looking for ice on the moon is decades? away for NASA (if ever) and will most likely be done by the Chinese
China beat them to the Moon’s South Pole. Xiden defers to China.