On Tuesday NASA administrator Jared Isaacman and other officials unveiled the space agency’s next small steps toward its long-sought giant leap of creating a “permanent” human outpost on the moon in the 2030s. The announcement included contract awards to private companies for new crewed lunar vehicles and additional uncrewed cargo landers, as well as additional technological milestones and timelines for NASA’s planned sequence of crewed missions as part of its Artemis program.
“We are moving with the confidence and the purpose to accomplish the missions that only NASA is capable of achieving,” said Isaacman in introductory remarks for the official “Moon Base” proceedings, a follow-up to an announcement in March that revealed NASA’s overarching lunar exploration plans. “And we are really just getting started.”\
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