NASA unveils $20 billion moon base plans
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NASA announced it will go back to the moon before the end of Donald Trump's term, and plans to build a three-stage moon base in the near future.
In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a sustainable, permanent, crewed moon base. But each of the two nations’ specific plans to achieve that moonshot are far from ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sean Duffy, NASA’s interim administrator, proved that the U.S. is serious about establishing a lunar base when he announced the deployment of a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon ...
A US Senate committee has directed NASA to begin work on a moon base "as soon as is practicable." Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory and proving ground, where astronauts would develop the ...