It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. As Reuters reports, NASA has lost four key senior Artemis officials, further stoking concerns that the space agency may ditch its plans to return to the Moon altogether. Whether they'll ever be replaced remains as dubious as ever; both president Donald Trump and SpaceX-CEO-slash-unelected-White-House-hatchet-man Elon Musk have argued that going to Mars should take priority. The outgoing officials, according to Reuters, include three senior staffers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as Jim Free, the agency's associate administrator who has championed the Artemis program. Meanwhile, billionaire tech founder — and SpaceX space tourist — Jared Isaacman, who Trump appointed as the next NASA administrator last year, has been strikingly quiet over the last couple of months. But in a tweet over the weekend, Isaacman made the case for "sending humans to another planet" — pointedly not the Moon. The avid space ... Read full article.