NASA Artemis Programs: Lunar Landing Plans Are Progressing but Challenges Remain

GAO has made numerous recommendations to reduce NASA’s acquisition risk and improve NASA’s management of its portfolio of major projects, which includes projects supporting the Artemis missions. NASA has generally agreed with the recommendations and implemented changes in response to many of them. However, it needs to take additional actions to fully address all of them.

As of May 2023, GAO identified six open recommendations related to Artemis as being a priority for implementation. For example, NASA concurred with our December 2019 recommendation to create a life-cycle cost estimate for the Artemis III mission but has not yet implemented it.