Because Texas is a fascist state and gives not a shit for consistency. The governer just pardoned a murderer because he killed a BLM protestor. The sate only enforces the law against those they don’t like, and give their christian nationalists a hard pass.
I’ve been worried about Artemis ever since NASA decided not to try to develop reusable rockets. I didn’t know all these details though. And now I wish I didn’t. This kind of program is going to kill astronauts. Then kill NASA.