Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base location

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.

NASA is hosting a news briefing to share its plans about a permanent moon base - follow our live updates

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

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.

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 hopes to return humans to the lunar surface in 2028.

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…

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.

The space agency has turned to Jeff Bezos as it seeks to jump-start progress on US President Donald Trump’s demand for a lunar base by the end of the decade.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record

During phase one, NASA will launch three Moon Base uncrewed missions