NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
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NASA is abandoning the Lunar Gateway space station to focus resources on building a permanent Moon base within the next decade.
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced Tuesday that the agency will abandon plans to build the Lunar Gateway, an orbiting space station, to focus instead on constructing a permanent Moon base within the next decade. The base will include long-range drones, multiple power sources, permanent habitats, scientific laboratories, and local manufacturing capabilities, developed in partnership with commercial industry contractors. Isaacman framed the shift as essential to competing with China for lunar dominance, warning that failure to act now would cede the Moon to a rival power. The agency will redirect resources from the orbital station toward sending medium-size and large cargo missions to the lunar surface to support the base's construction and operations.
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the agency will redirect resources from the orbital station toward cargo missions supporting lunar base construction in partnership with commercial contractors.
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