NASA OIG Audit – Artemis 3 Crewed Moon Mission Could Slip Into 2026

NASA’s Inspector General Paul Martin cautioned in a recent report that the agency faces “substantial cost growth” and “lengthy schedule delays” to its human spaceflight programs and science missions. NASA’s current plan to transition to a customer of commercial space stations after the planned retirement of the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2030 may result in a pause in human presence in low Earth orbit, the report concluded.