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Four astronauts flew around the moon last week for the first time since 1972. The engineers who built Orion earned every bit of that milestone. The $4 billion price tag for a rocket that then sinks into the ocean is a different story entirely.
By Crash Davis · 3 min read
Artemis II is back in the hangar after a helium flow issue killed the March window. The delays are real, the $4.1 billion-per-launch cost structure is genuinely indefensible, and the same problems keep appearing between missions. But NASA just restructured Artemis to iterate faster, the crew is extraordinary, and the destination still matters.
By Crash Davis · 4 min read