NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts — the first woman and next man — on the Moon’s south pole by 2024 and establish sustainable missions by 2028.
NASA has asked for an extra $1.6 billion in funding for 2020 to support the moon by 2024 program.
NASA has shown a plan for 37 launches of private and NASA rockets, robotic and human landers and starting a moon base long-duration crew stays in 2028.
15 Years, $30 Billion and No Good Test of a Big Rocket Based on Shuttle Technology:
The plan still relies on the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS has not flown its first test flight. There was a test flight in the Constellation program which was before SLS. The Constellation test was terrible.
Space Launch System (SLS) spent about $17 billion from 2011 to 2019. It will spend another $4 billion from 2020 to 2021. There is about $2.3 billion per year being spent on SLS. From 2005 to 2010, there was about $11.9 billion spent on the Constellation program. This was paid to mainly the same companies working on Space Launch System. The whole thinking was let make a big rocket out of Space Shuttle Technology.