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 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…

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace are awarded with hundreds of millions of dollars in NASA contracts for the first phase of its moon base…

May 26 : NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send robotic landers, rovers and drones to support the upcoming lunar exploration…

On Tuesday, NASA announced contracts for lunar landers and cargo landers planned for missions to the moon, as well on some details on those missions.

The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies.

During April's Artemis II mission, four astronauts flew around the moon, travelling deeper into space than the Apollo moon crews did during the late 1960s and early 1970s.