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NASA officials on Tuesday detailed the space agency’s plans to establish a lunar base, where astronauts could live and work long-term with the ultimate goal of studying the moon and its origins, as well as how best to send the first humans to Mars.
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NASA’s Artemis program is planning to build a permanent Moon base near the lunar south pole
NASA’s Artemis program is planning to build a permanent Moon base near the lunar south pole, starting with robotic missions and gradually expanding into a long-term human settlement. The project will support future deep space missions,
NASA has unveiled early details of its Artemis III mission, which in 2027 could send astronauts to Earth orbit to test two commercial lunar landers.
NASA will soon name the crew for Artemis III - the third mission in the space agency's Artemis program to send a manned crew to Mars.
NASA's Artemis astronauts can now train on a full-scale replica of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
NASA has awarded contracts worth nearly $1 billion to Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Astrolab, Lunar Outpost and Firefly Aerospace Inc. to build and deliver early infrastructure for a permanent moon base, the agency's first major commercial procurement push under