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According to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), another manned moon landing could be delayed until 2026. 

The original plan was to put a US astronaut on the Moon in 2024, but as time went by, there were growing signs that the target date was not sustainable. Among other things, the programme was held back by cost accounting and legal wrangling: Blue Origin founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeatedly challenged NASA's decision (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) after the space agency awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX company the contract to build the Artemis lunar module.

Last November, Director Bill Nelson announced that the next moon landing would be delayed by at least a year, so the earliest a human could set foot on the moon again would be 2025. But now NASA's Inspector General Paul Martin has said that the time needed to develop and test the lander and NASA's next-generation space suits means that the moon landing date is likely to be delayed until 2026 at the earliest. from a Space.

The space agency's decision is not surprising, as a report by NASA's Office of the Inspector General had already read at was that the organisation was facing serious challenges, and work was still at a very early stage, so it could well be years before a trip to the moon. "We estimate the next moon landing to be sometime in 2026 at the earliest" - they wrote.

The last time a man set foot on the Moon was in 1972, as part of the Apollo programme, but this will be the first time a woman and an astronaut of colour have been on a mission.

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