for balloon emissions and the other for the iss pushing up the costs and creating further delays considering the limited life span that the iss has before NUMBER_TOKEN nasa was scheduled to produce flight ready xemus for the iss by NUMBER_TOKEN and the artemis iii mission which was due in NUMBER_TOKEN but in NUMBER_TOKEN the artemis moon landing goal was moved forward by four years to NUMBER_TOKEN there was a NUMBER_TOKEN months margin built into the xcmu schedule but with these still unfolding kovy NUMBER_TOKEN issues budget cuts and technical issues have now introduced approximately NUMBER_TOKEN months of delay into the schedule meaning they are now about eight months behind before they can be used on the iss or the artemis program the new xemus will be required for crew training for at least NUMBER_TOKEN months and normally two years before they are deployed with these delays it's now looking like the first two flight ready xemus won't be ready until at least NUMBER_TOKEN the bringing forward of the artemis program also to NUMBER_TOKEN the aging iss spacesuit issues and other issues which are of nasa's own creation has created a perfect storm which means that the late NUMBER_TOKEN lunar landings probably won't be possible and because of the design testing and qualification of a spacesuit is expected to be over a billion dollars these are not the only issues of a return to the moon poses the lander system is still in its early design phase and there are still issues to work out with the sls rocket and the orion capsule but the xcmus are the common link across all the space programs and as such they are now the achilles heel for the american man space program if you're interested in finding out more about the ongoing development of the nasa next-gen spacesuits there is a new report from the office of audits the link is in the description which makes some interesting but also rather depressing reading so i hope you enjoyed the video and if you did then please thumbs up subscribe click the bell notification and share and i'd also like to say a big thank you to all our patrons out there for their ongoing support
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