Artemis II is a massively expensive retread of a 58-year-old mission with no landing, no breakthrough tech and no compelling scientific payoff. Robots explore smarter, cheaper and safer — NASA's Mars rovers cost a fraction of what crewed missions demand, yet deliver transformative discoveries. Pouring hundreds of billions into lunar footprints while canceling missions that could prove extraterrestrial life ever existed is a staggering misallocation of resources.