A decade of pork-barrel spending just got vaporized by a single procurement filing
$982 million original estimate → $2.8 billion projected cost → $0 flights completed. The Exploration Upper Stage is dead.
NASA posted a sole-source contract notice on March 6 confirming that Boeing’s Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) is being replaced by ULA’s Centaur V for Artemis IV and V. After 10+ years of development, the hardware that was supposed to take us beyond low Earth orbit never left the ground.
