WATCH: NASA shares plans to construct moon base
Summary
NASA is planning to build a base on the moon and has started ordering machines like landers, rovers, and drones to help. They gave contracts to four U.S. companies to deliver these machines before astronauts arrive, possibly by 2028.Key Facts
- NASA announced the first phase of its moon base project recently.
- Four U.S. companies received contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Blue Origin will provide two landers to bring moon buggies near the moon’s south pole.
- The moon buggies, called lunar terrain vehicles, will be built by Astrolab and Lunar Outpost.
- Firefly Aerospace will send the first drones to the moon.
- The hardware is planned to arrive before astronauts land as part of the Artemis III mission.
- Artemis II mission in April flew astronauts around the moon, farther than the Apollo missions.
- Artemis III, scheduled for next year, will include docking practice between NASA’s capsule and lunar landers made by Blue Origin and SpaceX.
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