NASA has 'cancelled' the Artemis III moon landing. Here's why

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4. Things have changed

Funding is lower in comparison and subject to random budgetary whims from congress. Since its a government agency, procurement and contracting for basically everything has to run through the same political filter as the DoD, so various congress people force NASA to use suppliers and companies in their own states or districts regardless of if they were the best. Look at the shuttle replacement program. Total fucking disaster of a program. Way behind schedule, way over budget, and they are still reusing shuttle era tech because someone in congress wanted to make sure someone in their state maintained that contract. And after the shuttle disasters, nasa got very risk adverse. To the point that everything is slowed down for safety. Not saying that's a bad thing when it comes to lives, but its bled into even unmanned missions because a failure there could lead to a funding cut next year.