Former NASA Administrator Fears Artemis Program Won’t Beat China to Moon

A full moon is seen behind the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher, are prepared for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for launch, at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14, 2022. Cory Huston/NASA via AP

Former NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin believes that America’s current plan to go back to the Moon is “highly unlikely” to succeed on schedule and fears losing a new space race to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Mr. Griffin told the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics on Jan. 17 that: “The Artemis program is excessively complex, unrealistically priced,” and  “compromises crew safety.”