From the Daily Mail: NASA has scrubbed its plans to land on the moon in 2027 amid a series of struggles to launch the Artemis II spacecraft this month.
Space agency administrator Jared Isaacman revealed on Friday that Artemis III, which had been scheduled to touch down on the lunar surface next year, will now only circle the moon – pushing a potential landing mission to 2028 at the earliest.
Meanwhile, its predecessor, Artemis II, initially scheduled to take off on February 8, continues to experience fueling issues that have pushed back its ten-day trek to orbit the moon to April.
The scheduling shakeup comes as NASA critics and conspiracy theorists claim the space agency has been delaying the much-anticipated moon missions to hide the presence of ancient structures previously found on the moon’s dark side.
The report explains that unfounded conspiracies have been promoted by multiple authors, scientists and UFO researchers that NASA has concealed astronaut reports of buildings located on the side of the moon facing away from Earth. They claim the “buildings” are potentially tens of thousands of years old.
However, the U.S. government has denied the claims, and say no evidence of extraterrestrial life has ever been found.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman explained Friday that the real reason for the delay in landing on the moon is to perfect the mission.
“President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to stay. This is the NASA that once changed the world. This is the NASA that will do it again,” Isaacman announced:
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President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon,… pic.twitter.com/Qjm6BD5Ipi
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) February 27, 2026
Isaacman later spoke to Fox News, and wrote, “The days of NASA launching Moon rockets every 3 years are over. The plan that we announced today will mean flying with greater frequency, ensuring that we will deliver on @POTUS’ directive of returning Americans to the Moon in 2028.”
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The days of NASA launching Moon rockets every 3 years are over.
The plan that we announced today will mean flying with greater frequency, ensuring that we will deliver on @POTUS’ directive of returning Americans to the Moon in 2028. pic.twitter.com/4e2UcgQlTk
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) February 27, 2026
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