Lunar Surface Exploration

NASA plans to build permanent base on Moon

NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft

NASA's Gateway lunar space station won't launch next year in new changes to the Artemis program, which include ramping up development of a $20 billion moon base and a nuclear-powered 'Freedom'

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NASA's reimagined lunar plans include $20 billion moon base

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NASA to spend $20 billion on ambitious moon base

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NASA's Artemis astronauts enter final preparations for Moon mission

Artemis II is a critical test of NASA's lunar program

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NASA Sets 2028 Launch For First Nuclear Mission To Mars Days Before Return To The Moon

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Japan's ispace delays NASA-sponsored moon landing to 2030

Space Missions Launching To Pave The Way Back To The Moon

Uncrewed lunar missions from private companies aim to prep the Moon’s surface for NASA’s planned human return in 2028.

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This NASA tool will fly aboard a JAXA-ISRO mission to look for water in the Moon's south pole

The device, dubbed the Neutron Spectrometer System, will detect the presence of the H in H₂O without drilling into the surface.

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NASA Device to Help Locate Water Ice at Moon’s South Pole, Experts Say

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS),