The most stringent criticism of the Artemis Program was offered by former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin. He has long been a critic of NASA’s approach toward establishing what the space agency views as a “sustainable” path back to the Moon, which relies on reusable lunar landers that are refueled in space.

NASA’s Moon plan isn’t a single landing, it’s a supply chain. Artemis missions bring crews back first, then use SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System to move people and heavy cargo from lunar orbit down to the surface and back.

Under the current plan, NASA would launch its astronauts aboard the Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System rocket, both of which NASA developed. After reaching lunar orbit, the astronauts would transfer to Starship, which would ferry two people down to the moon’s surface and then back to lunar orbit.

As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans. Neither has specified those plans publicly, but a recent update from SpaceX referenced a “simplified” version of the Starship system it’s building to help NASA return humans to the Moon.

NASA is looking for new ideas for moon landers to help its astronauts return to the surface of the moon as progress for SpaceX's Starship megarocket has come slower than hoped. Sean Duffy, NASA's acting administrator, has recently made the rounds on ...

The Kennedy Space Center in Florida is among several organizations that collaborate with Goddard whose work could be impacted amid NASA changes.

NASA’s acting Administrator Sean Duffy seems to have provoked the ire of Elon Musk. Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, took aim at Duffy on Tuesday in a flurry of social media posts, attacking his intelligence and recent efforts at the helm of the ...

NASA is working with private companies to build new Moon rovers that will carry astronauts across the lunar surface during Artemis missions. These vehicles will help astronauts travel farther, do more science,