NASA unveils ambitious $20 billion plan to build moon base near lunar south pole

In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated base on the moon.

NASA lays out decade-long, $30 billion plan to build permanent moon base: ‘Committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again’

Artemis II’s successful lunar flyby on Wednesday was a big step toward landing humans back on the moon soon, but NASA has ...
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NASA needs nuclear power for its moon base. Here’s the White House plan to get it

If the U.S. is ever to set up a permanent outpost on the moon, it will need nuclear power. The White House just released a ...

Colorado company ready to build the lunar base, provide ‘lunar mobility’

Original concepts for a moon base ranged from believable to outlandish. Following the success of Artemis II, which launched ...

73 moon landings? NASA's 'Moon Base User's Guide' reveals the agency's 'most ambitious space project' will be fraught with challenges

NASA has released a 'Moon Base User's Guide' that reveals the major gaps the agency and its partners must fill in to land and ...

Inside NASA's audacious plan to build a nuclear-powered moon base

The end of the historic Artemis II mission kicks off a race to establish a permanent human presence on the moon.
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NASA’s new moon base project requires operational technology systems in space, but they are vulnerable.

To the delight of space enthusiasts everywhere, Isaacman said NASA was cancelling its project to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and would reorient to building a $20 billion base on the surface ...