Distract, Divert, Defund Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." As Politico reports, lawmakers who control NASA's budget are prepared to fight back against Musk's apparent plan to kibosh the space agency's forthcoming lunar landing in favor of his long-running Martian dreams. Though Musk previously criticized the lunar mission as a "jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program," the soon-to-be head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has not taken aim at Artemis for being massively over-budget and behind schedule to boot. Mark […]