NASA needs $1 billion in infrastructure upgrades to support Artemis launches, watchdog report finds

NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon and bolster a rapidly growing commercial space industry is facing an infrastructure obstacle.

A new report from NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) warns that launch facilities at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia are approaching capacity as demand accelerates across the agency and the private sector.

Decades-old facilities are struggling to keep pace with the new space race.