NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) has cast doubt on SpaceX's Starship making the 2027 Artemis III lunar landing deadline.

According to reports , ASAP has warned there is every chance that SpaceX's Human Landing System (HLS) won't be ready in time.

Artemis III is the mission where NASA plans to put astronaut boots back on the Moon. It is scheduled for 2027, but SpaceX's Starship is a major component of the mission and is only now moving past the stage where test flights tend to end in fireballs.

When SpaceX was awarded the contract to put humans back on the Moon, the plan was to reach the surface in 2024. The mission profile requires humans to launch on NASA's SLS rocket, rendezvous with the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship in lunar orbit, and conduct a visit to

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