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Ammunition for Theorists Who Believe U.S. Moon Landing Was A Hoax
Because of anticipated delays in spacesuit development, it is “not feasible” for NASA to land humans on the moon by the agency’s hopeful deadline of 2024, a new report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found.
The above notice is from an article at Space.com regarding a new report indicating that NASA may not be ready for it’s scheduled 2024 moon launch because the space suits will not be ready in time.
“NASA’s current schedule is to produce the first two flight-ready xEMUs by November 2024, but the agency faces significant challenges in meeting this goal,” the audit reads. However, it adds, given anticipated delays in spacesuit development, “a lunar landing in late 2024 as NASA currently plans is not feasible.”
The cost for these suits alone will be over a billion dollars. Cost isn’t the only obstacle, there is also a need to test the suits and verify their effectiveness in protecting the explorer astronauts. The testing and verification process will take 20 months.
The way I see it is that if it really takes this much trouble to make a space suit, how…
