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NASA Chief Announces Plan to Build Lunar Village by 2035
NASA aims to sustain human life on the Moon with a nuclear-powered village and advance Mars exploration within ten years, the agency's administrator said at IAC 2025.
- At the International Astronautical Congress 2025 in Sydney, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy said the U.S. could run a village on the Moon within a decade, powered by a nuclear reactor from commercial partners responding to NASA's recent RFI.
- Senate testimony and witnesses warned that China may land astronauts at the lunar south pole before the U.S., with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine saying, `Unless something changes, it is highly unlikely the United States will beat China’s projected timeline to the Moon’s surface.`
- NASA and the Department of Energy have been developing fission surface power for years, and Duffy ordered development of a 100 kilowatt reactor, urging deployment to make lunar habitation real.
- Congress provided $10 billion for NASA and oversight chairmen pressed Duffy for spending details; of that, $4.1 billion is for Space Launch System and $20 million for Orion spacecraft.
- International collaboration is growing, as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Indian Space Research Organisation plan LUPEX, while Mike Gold warned, `If they get there first, we will see a global realignment...
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