1. NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit

https://www.space.com/nasa-halts-spacex-moon-lander-blue-origin-lawsuit

2. NASA awards $500,000 to develop moon-mining tech

https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-ice-mining-challenge-awards

3. NASA mulls how to dispose of International Space Station

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/08/12/nasa-international-space-station-deorbit-Russia/3871628619090/

News item #2 indicates that NASA is spending way more money trying to get to the moon, than on developing the technology to stay there. News item #3 reinforces this impression, as NASA plans to de-orbit the ISS, even though it contains 450 tons of already-refined metals, composites, and other materials.