NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission

NASA has selected Blue Origin to play a major role in the agency’s expanding Moon Base initiative, which will involve three launches in a short time-frame.

NASA plans to build a planned moon base in three stages, starting with more frequent astronaut and cargo flights to the moon the develop the infrastructure needed to support…

NASA plans to build a $20 billion base on the moon, and the Artemis II crew flew by the moon last month in part to flesh out the initiative.

During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed

La NASA prev� enviar a la Luna, entre septiembre y noviembre, un alunizador no tripulado de Blue Origin para comenzar a asentar los cimientos de la futura base lunar, y le...

Early habitation on the moon is slated for 2029

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

The agency aims to begin constructing a lunar base in 2029, then have a sustained human presence on the moon starting a few years later.

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NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission

We also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty."

NASA has provided the first look at its plans for its moon base, which include several robotic missions to the surface of the moon as early as this year.

The outpost at the satellite’s south pole may eventually spread out over hundreds of square miles

NASA is targeting a moon landing by two astronauts as soon as 2028.

It starts with the first privately funded lunar lander mission in history.

The base's perimeter may be marked by hopping "MoonFall" drones, and new moon rovers built by AstroLab and Lunar Outpost will carry astronauts around the site.

NASA announced May 26 the first contracts for its planned lunar base, picking four companies to develop and deliver landers and drones to the moon.

NASA hopes to return humans to the lunar surface in 2028.

NASA said the first three unmanned moon base missions are targeted to launch by the end of 2026, after achieving a historic lunar fly-by.

NASA’s Moon Base launches start this fall.