How NASA plans to build a moon base — and when it could happen

NASA has plans for an ambitious moon base where astronauts can live long-term as the agency prepares to send humans to Mars.
The Conversation

NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long‑term lunar presence

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will take an astronaut crew around the Moon rolls out to the launchpad. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images The next U.S. trip to the Moon isn’t about planting a ...
Ars Technica

We got an audience with the “Lunar Viceroy” to talk how NASA will build a Moon base

At the end of a long day on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman looked down at a table littered with microphones and jokingly referred to the space agency’s new Moon base manager, Carlos Garcia ...
National Geographic news

Inside NASA's audacious plan to build a nuclear-powered moon base

The end of the historic Artemis II mission kicks off a race to establish a permanent human presence on the moon. NASA is taking steps toward establishing a permanent lunar outpost by 2030. This ...
Astronomy

How NASA plans to build a Moon Base

NASA announced new contracts for the rovers and landers that will lay the groundwork for the agency’s proposed $30-billion Moon Base — some of which they plan to launch as soon as this fall — during a ...