NASA announced Tuesday that putting astronauts back on the moon will be delayed by a year from the previous deadline set by the Trump administration. The reasons for extending the lunar rendezvous to 2025 were cited as funding and legal issues as well as pandemic-related restrictions. According to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Congress had not provided enough money for developing a landing system for its Artemis moon program and Orion capsule. The Artemis program is aimed at establishing a sustainable long-term lunar colony before sending astronauts to Mars. There was a legal challenge mounted by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin against NASA for handing the $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Judge Richard Hertling of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed the lawsuit on Nov. 4. “We lost nearly seven months in litigation, and that likely has pushed the first human landing likely to no earlier than …