NASA audit finds $5.9 billion in canceled Artemis hardware contracts
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Josh Dinner
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A NASA Office of Inspector General audit reveals that canceled Artemis program hardware contracts reached $5.9 billion, including nearly half a billion dollars for a single stage adapter. The audit details how major hardware components became costly artifacts of lunar mission plans that no longer align with NASA's restructured Artemis strategy following the agency's "Ignition Day" event earlier this year. The report highlights significant cost overruns and mismanagement in contracts for equipment that has since been scrapped or rendered obsolete by the new mission architecture.
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· 3 pulledA new memo from NASA's Office of Inspector General has revealed how major pieces of Artemis program hardware became costly components of lunar missions that no longer align with the agency's new plans to return astronauts to the moon and have since been canceled.
NASA was on track to pay nearly half a billion dollars for a stage adapter. A stage adapter should not cost half a billion dollars.
NASA announced a major shakeup to its Artemis plans earlier this year at its 'Ignition Day' event, restructuring its mission goals.
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