NASA Moon Landing Pushed Back Because The Spacesuits Aren’t Ready
August 11, 2021 7:15AM EDT
1971: Astronaut Alan B Shepard holds the pole of a US flag on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
NASA’s latest quest for the moon has been pushed back a year – because the spacesuits aren’t ready yet.
The agency had been hoping to send humans back to the moon – including the first-ever woman on the moon – by the year 2024 under its ‘Artemis’ program.
However, NASA now says the mission won’t take off until “April 2025 at the earliest” due to “anticipated delays in spacesuit development”.
By the time the first two suits are ready, NASA will have spent over a billion dollars developing them.
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