A buried lede in the Artemis II news from NASA (2026 moon flyby) is that SpaceX has been a disasterous and wasteful drag.

The success of the mission will determine how soon Nasa can launch Artemis III, to actually land on the Moon. But even if the mission goes to perfection, the space agency’s stated aim of “no earlier than mid-2027” is unrealistic, according to Dr Simeon Barber of the Open University. […] “The Moon landing will require [Elon Musk’s] SpaceX Starship to take the astronauts to and from the surface, and we’ve seen in recent months that Starship itself still has a long way to go before it can even achieve an orbital flight around the Earth, let alone put astronauts on board.”

Musk promised reckless abandon of safety and science would push his SpaceX investors to reach Mars faster than NASA.

Mars.

The planet NASA reached successfully in the 1960s, SpaceX said they would reach by 2018 to “beat” NASA there while being 60 years late.

Now this ruse is unmistakable. After a decade of repeated dangerous mishaps, failing faster and faster, SpaceX still hasn’t even achieved a single successful Earth orbit.

More like a kiddie park train wreck.

Related: Musk also promised his investors in 2016 that he would deliver driverless cars, achieving coast-to-coast trips by 2017.

Meanwhile, when two investors in 2025 attempted it, Tesla crashed catastrophically in the first 60 miles.

Rockets?

He promised Mars by 2018.

Cars?

He promised NY to LA by 2017.

And don’t even ask about his promise in 2014 he would deploy robotic metal snakes nationwide…

Snake oil, like the late 1800s again, all of it.

And now he’s so rich he controls American elections like it’s the late 1800s again.

NASA should know better. It is clear who has the Musk of mission failure. Long past time to hit the big abort button on anything related to him.