How NASA Will Build The Artemis Moon Base
A discarded space station. A twenty billion dollar price tag. A race against China measured in months, not years. This is not the Moon base you were expecting.In a dramatic pivot announced in March 2026, NASA cancelled its long-planned Lunar Gateway orbiting station to focus all resources on a surface base [citation:1][citation:9]. The new plan costs $20 billion over seven years and unfolds in three aggressive phases [citation:3]. Phase 1, from 2026 to 2028, focuses on landing rovers, testing nuclear power systems, and gathering ground truth at the lunar south pole [citation:9]. Phase 2, from…
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