"Competition for control of lunar resources and territory will likely reach a tipping point..."

Early habitation on the moon is slated for 2029

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

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

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.

After a successful lunar flyaround, NASA has announced three missions to the moon as part of efforts to establish a permanent base on the earth's natural satellite.

The US is in a space race with China to get astronauts to the lunar surface.

NASA is ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround.

Starting gun fired on America’s new space race as NASA reveals images of planned Moon base for astronauts to live and work on the lunar surface in six years

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

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

Flushed with success after its record-breaking Artemis II mission around the moon, NASA has now outlined its plans for a first phase of a base on the moon.

That the impulse to explore is elemental to the human species — from the first migrations out of Africa to the rovers now on Mars — is not in question. What is in question is…

"Competition for control of lunar resources and territory will likely reach a tipping point..."