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GAO: NASA has no single cost estimate for Moon-to-Mars program
NASA has not provided one total cost estimate for its Moon-to-Mars program, according to a federal auditor.
William Russell of the Government Accountability Office said NASA does not maintain a single top-line estimate for the program.
NASA tracks costs separately and publishes life-cycle estimates for individual hardware projects but does not combine them into one figure.
The watchdog reported that NASA lacks comprehensive estimates for all Artemis mission components, while NASA described its lunar base as a roughly $20 billion effort over seven years.