NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA, Northrop Grumman repurpose Gateway elements for Moon Base demo missions

Northrop Grumman’s Lunar Infrastructure Demos (LID-1, LID-2 and LID-3) reuse HALO derived technologies to rapidly mature lunar surface power, thermal, autonomy, communications and hosted payload services that can survive the lunar night and scale into persistent infrastructure near the Moon’s South Pole. Graphic: Northrop Grumman NASA’s decision to pivot away from the orbiting Gateway lunar station, a stepping stone to the lunar surface for Arte…

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NASA says humans could live on the moon within 20 years as it pushes ahead with plans for a lunar base.

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The project is expected to begin with robotic missions in 2026, while astronauts could start living and working there in the 2030s.

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Fifty-seven years after Americans first landed on the moon, NASA is going back — not to plant another flag, but to build a permanent lunar base as it pushes to make humans an interplanetary species.

NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s rendering of the Moon’s South Pole region. Glowing points of light scattered across the lunar surface represent surface assets supporting sustained human and robotic operations near the South Pole. NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human ope…

NASA Details Progress on Four Moon Base Landers

Four commercial landers are being prepared for delivery by 2028 Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace, Intuitive Machines and Voyager Lunar Systems are developing the landers The first phase of the Moon Base architecture is ongoing, covering more than 20 robotic landings NASA has published a progress report on the commercial landers and technology demonstrations supporting the […] The post NASA Details Progress on Four Moon Base Landers first appeared …