Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Artemis program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars" instead in a recent tweet — and directly contradicting the agency's long-established plans. In a separate tweet on Christmas Day, Musk  accused the space agency's Moon program of being "extremely inefficient as it is a jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program." The broadsides onc…