The first two flights of NASA’s next big rocket will likely be delayed, new report claims

Over the next few years, NASA plans to get back to launching its own rockets again, with two deep-space missions that will take new hardware and people in the vicinity of the Moon. Those launches are tentatively scheduled for 2018 and 2021, but most likely they won’t get off the ground on time, thanks to high costs and technical challenges. That’s the conclusion of a new report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General.
The two inaugural missions are part of NASA’s long-ter