Frankly Fukuyama
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What's Wrong with NASA and the Artemis Program?
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February 9, 2026
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11:05Now PlayingWhile the Apollo program got astronauts to the moon in 8 years, NASA's effort to return there under the Artemis program has been bogged down with delays and cost overruns. NASA, like other parts of the federal government, suffers from decline state capacity, due to the way that Congress has sought to protect legacy aerospace contractors and existing jobs. This is part of a broader problem of elected representatives burdening bureaucracies with rigid and unworkable mandates.
Frankly Fukuyama is the YouTube channel of Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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