NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station

[hunter]

20. It's a Hail Mary...

... keeping the program alive in a comatose state, hoping it will survive until they have the actual resources to get the job done.

Next thing to go will be the NRHO and polar landing, making the Artemis Project a simple repeat of the Apollo Project... assuming it ever does land on the moon.

I have trouble understanding why we are sending humans back to the moon. Anything humans can do in space our machines can do better using fewer resources. I doubt humans will ever have a significant presence in space. We're just too fragile.