More delays for NASA's astronaut moonshots, with crew landing off for another few years

Just hours aft launching toward the satellite aboriginal Monday morning, the institution announced the spacecraft was successful jeopardy.

Astronauts volition person to hold until adjacent twelvemonth earlier flying to the satellite and different fewer years earlier landing connected it, nether the latest circular of delays announced by NASA connected Tuesday.

The video is from a erstwhile report.

The abstraction bureau had planned to nonstop 4 astronauts astir the satellite precocious this year, but pushed the formation to September 2025 due to the fact that of method issues. The archetypal quality satellite landing successful much than 50 years besides got bumped, from 2025 to 2026.

The quality came hardly an hr aft a Pittsburgh institution abandoned its ain effort to onshore its spacecraft connected the satellite due to the fact that of a mission-ending substance leak.

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Launched connected Monday arsenic portion of NASA's commercialized lunar program, Astrobotic Technology's Peregrine lander was expected to service arsenic a scout for the astronauts. A Houston institution volition springiness it a changeable with its ain lander adjacent month.

NASA is relying heavy connected backstage companies for its Artemis moon-landing programme for astronauts, named aft the mythological duplicate sister of Apollo.

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