The leading space agency, NASA, announced on Wednesday delaying operating any astronauts' moon landing plans or missions to 2025, passing the deadline that was previously scheduled by the Trump administration.
Nasa was supposed to start sending agents to the moon once again in 2024 after almost a half-century of the final manned mission to the moon.
The agency's administrator Bill Nelson said that the reason for such a delay is funding, as Congress did not provide the space agency with the required budgets for Nasa's Artemis moon landing program, and for the Orion capsule.
He said: "The human landing system is a crucial part of our work to get the first woman and the first person of color to the lunar surface, and we are getting geared up to go."
Moreover, there is a challenge between Jeff Bezos' rocket corporation, Blue Origin, that would carry the astronauts' capsule and the lunar landing system that is being developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Nasa's official added: "We lost nearly seven months in litigation, and that likely has pushed the first human landing likely to no earlier than 2025."
Another reason was reviewed by the agency is the Orion capsule budged that jumped to $ 9.3 billion, alongside COVID-19 impacts.
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