NASA's Artemis 2 launch delayed to 2026 - NASA chief explains

NASA administrator delivers an update on the Artemis 2 moon mission at a press conference on Dec. 5, 2024. The launch of the mission has been delayed to no earlier than April 2026.

Credit: NASA

[nobody.nobody.nobody]

Of course it was delayed, we are not surprised.

[barrymac]

between 1969 and 1972 we put 12 men on the moon, using technology barely above stone knives and bear skins. now, 50+ years later, we get this load of rubbish…

[startrekmaniac]

This thing is never going to get of the ground

[notgreg]

Bruh i was literally assembing a bingo card of things to happen in 2025 and one of them was "Artemis II gets delayed to 2026". I didn't even have to wait til 2025 lmao

[tanierliperez-barquero]

Si nasa cancelar el Artemis el peor error de la historia espacio americana

[Aslowfade]

It's kind of cool that NASA let's a alien with a confused understanding of English to present these things.

[schrodingersmechanic]

They put people on the moon using a sliderule when my mom was 5.

[regolith]

"We have made tremendous achievements in the Artemis program paperwork. The dedicated men and women of NASA have worked diligently over the past four years to create untold mountains of PowerPoint slides, memos, requirements documents, meeting transcripts, proposals, budgets, preliminary reports, and final reports. Space paperwork is hard and our people have risen to the challenge."

[DESTO]

I’ll be dead or this guy will before a man walks in the moon

[Homer]

Come 2026, and we all know what they're going to say.

[HalifaxHercules]

NASA just keeps making one excuse after another for delaying the Artemis program.

Since USA are the world's richest economy, you expect that their space program will be on time, not encounter one delay after another.

Enough is enough, no more excuses and no more lies, NASA.

[Franciszek]

I prefer to cancel Artemis and follow with SpaceX starship. The Artemis project is very expensive.

[scottgauley]

And it will get delayed again after that. It's almost like we've never been to the moon before...

[kevinjackson]

What an absolute waste of money. Get nasa out of launch vehicles and just concentrate on science and probes. Government just isn’t good at launch. We all know why.

[Markaras]

1:41 I am pretty sure it will launch in 2030 or something, not 2026.

[daniels]

No worries. Starship isn't ready yet either. Heck, clunky as SLS is, it at least managed to put an Orion capsule into an orbit out past the Moon. Starship has yet to successfully reach orbit. This whole program has way too many separate dependencies. Apollo was done with the just the Saturn V.

[ThomasistheTwin]

Just use 1960s technology and we’d be there already.

[petachad]

Because of these clowns flat earthers think we haven't gone to the Moon

[tsukasa]

China is gonna landed on moon earlier than NASA went back to moon.

[qubitqubit]

Just build the Apollo capsule and put computers inside. Why is it so hard?