US EditionNASA to Spend US$20 Billion on Moon Base, Cancel Orbiting Lunar Station
NASA will invest $20 billion over seven years to build a permanent moon base, pausing the Lunar Gateway program to focus on sustained lunar surface operations.
- On Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced in Washington that the agency is canceling the Lunar Gateway and will instead build a $20 billion base on the moon's surface over the next seven years.
- The agency is streamlining its flagship Artemis program to compete with China's lunar ambitions, repurposing equipment and international commitments from the defunct Gateway project to support surface operations.
- NASA will invest about $20 billion over seven years, utilizing components already built by contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, to support the surface base.
- In a schedule revision, NASA's Artemis III mission next year will focus on testing operational capabilities in Earth's orbit rather than transporting astronauts to the lunar surface.
- Development will proceed in three phases, with the initial stage targeting up to 30 robotic landings starting in 2027; Isaacman noted this mirrors the evolutionary path from Mercury and Gemini to Apollo.
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The US space agency NASA has announced that it intends to pause the project to build a space station in orbit around the moon. The goal is to focus on a lunar base.
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NASA to build $20 bn moon base, pause orbital lunar station plans
NASA's chief on Tuesday said the US space agency will invest $20 billion to develop a base on the Moon, while suspending its plans to create the lunar orbital space station known as Gateway.
NASA to spend US$20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station
NASA is canceling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion base on the moon’s surface over the next seven years, its new chief Jared Isaacman said on Tuesday.
This announcement is the latest to upset the Artemis program, whose goal is to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon and prepare future missions on Mars.
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