NASA Livestream Lays Out Its Plans for a Permanent Base on the Moon
NASA astronauts will have to spend quite some time building a lunar base before they can actually benefit from it.Credit: NASA
On Tuesday, NASA held a livestream offering updates on the Moon Base program. Though it didn't reveal any groundbreaking announcements, it did provide granular updates on the timelines for individual components of the Moon Base and insight into which companies will receive the next rounds of NASA funding.
NASA's Moon Base program manager, Carlos García-Galán, said there are three main components of the program at various stages of development.
Blue Origin's Endurance lander
The Endurance Mk2 lander is a crewed concept competing for the privilege of carrying astronauts to the lunar surface. Interestingly, there was no mention of SpaceX in this particular area.
"I have actually already seen Endurance...and it looks like it's almost done. As a matter of fact, I think the assembly is pretty much complete," García-Galán...
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