Delays with SpaceX’s Starship risk NASA moon landing timeline

SpaceX’s Starship has accumulated at least two years of development delays since NASA picked the rocket as an astronaut moon lander in 2021, and is expected to require more time to clear remaining hurdles before landing on the moon, NASA’s inspector general said Tuesday as the agency studies plans to speed up the program.

NASA has been working with an array of companies, most prominently Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, in its multibillion-dollar Artemis program to kickstart routine astronaut missions to the moon...