#SPACEX: Artemis delayed till at best 2027 and blaming Musk.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 2 December 2023
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#SPACEX: Artemis delayed till at best 2027 and blaming Musk.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/gao-first-artemis-manned-landing-likely-delayed-to-2027/
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| 0:35.0 | Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman joins. |
| 0:38.0 | Behind the Black is very careful about reporting commercial space successes. |
| 0:43.4 | And we have a report today that is both a commercial space success and a big space hesitation. |
| 0:50.2 | Bob, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:52.2 | The GAO is right now identifying a delay till 2027 for Artemis. |
| 0:58.6 | Why? |
| 0:59.6 | Yes, John, the GAO released a report today that just simply admitted what has been pretty evident to anyone who really pays attention that there was no way in Jose for NASA to get its first man landing on the moon in the |
| 1:17.5 | Artemis program in 25 as they've been recently promising that was delayed from the 24 date that the |
| 1:24.8 | Trump administration had proposed they said they were delaying it till 25 |
| 1:28.6 | but the GAO says that's not going to happen it's not not possible. It's likely going to be delayed |
| 1:33.4 | till 2027. I will point out that that's also unrealistic. It's probably not going |
| 1:38.8 | to happen for at least a year after that, if not more. But the GAO says so and it has now admitted that there's |
| 1:45.6 | delays it really couches its words though in a very dishonest manner the |
| 1:50.0 | GAO report which makes this report less useful than it could have been. It talks at |
| 1:55.4 | great length about how SpaceX's testing program for Starship Super Heavy is causing |
| 2:01.5 | the delays. It makes a big deal about that. How you know the first |
| 2:05.2 | test launch happened in April, it failed according to the GAO and the FAA headed to an investigation. |
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