Cost and schedule overruns continue to grow for NASA programsby Jeff Foust — May 24, 2021 [SN]
The Space Launch System core stage arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in April. The SLS program is a major driver of the cost and schedule increases in major NASA programs identified in a new GAO report. Credit: NASA/Jamie PeerWASHINGTON — NASA suffered increasing cost overruns on its major programs again in 2020, a problem a new report says will be exacerbated by the pandemic.
The annual report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on major NASA programs, published May 20, found that costs of those programs grew by more than $1 billion in 2020, the fifth year in a row overall costs increased.
The cumulative cost overrun of 20 major programs in development, defined as those with total costs of at least $250 million, grew to more than $9.6 billion in the report. Three programs — the James Webb Space Telescope, Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System — account for $8 billion of that total, including $4.4 billion for JWST alone.
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