{"id":915789,"date":"2026-11-13T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915789\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T09:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:20:46","slug":"nasa-announces-plan-to-build-20-billion-moon-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/915789\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA announces plan to build $20 billion moon base"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 NASA announced its plan to build a $20 billion moon base<\/a> over the next seven years and to start sending astronauts to the moon every six months after the Artemis V mission in 2028.<\/p>\n

“NASA is committed to achieving the nearimpossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump\u2019s term, build a Moon base, establish an enduring presence, and do the other things needed to ensure American leadership in space,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in a statement<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“This is why it is essential we leave an event like Ignition with complete alignment on the national imperative that is our collective mission. The clock is running in this greatpower competition, and success or failure will be measured in months, not years,” he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we concentrate NASA\u2019s extraordinary resources on the objectives of the National Space Policy, clear away needless obstacles that impede progress, and unleash the workforce and industrial might of our nation and partners, then returning to the Moon and building a base will seem pale in comparison to what we will be capable of accomplishing in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

At NASA’s “Ignition” event Tuesday at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., agency leaders presented their plan to return astronauts to the moon, where they will build a permanent base, ABC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the event, Isaacman reminded the audience of Congress members and 35 countries’ representatives that the U.S. is in a space race with China.<\/p>\n

“The clock is running in this greatpower competition, and success or failure will be measured in months, not years,\u201d Isaacman said.<\/p>\n

The Artemis IV and Artemis V missions that will land astronauts on the moon are now scheduled for launch in 2028, which Isaacman said is important to beating the Chinese.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey might be early, and recent history says we might be late,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this time, the goal is not flags and footprints. This time, the goal is to stay.”<\/p>\n

Isaacman explained that following the Artemis V mission<\/a>, NASA is hoping to send astronauts to the moon’s surface every six months, with the assistance of commercial space companies, as they gradually build a base for people to live and work long-term.<\/p>\n

Carlos Garcia-Galan, NASA\u2019s Moon Base program executive, said that NASA is shifting from its prior plan to construct a space station to orbit the moon, called the Gateway program, and will instead “focus on building the moon base.” Gateway’s systems and hardware will be repurposed to accelerate progress on the moon base, Garcia-Galan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moon base will not appear overnight,\u201d Isaacman said. “We will invest approximately $20 billion over the next seven years and build it through dozens of missions, working together with commercial and international partners towards a deliberate and achievable plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaacman said that constructing the moon base will be done in three phases: build, test, learn; early infrastructure; and long-term presence.<\/p>\n

In this first phase, NASA and its commercial partners will regularly send rovers, instruments, and technology to the moon for testing power, mobility, communications, scientific tools, and navigation.<\/p>\n

For the second phase, NASA and its partners<\/a> will start building semi-habitable areas for astronauts so they can operate on the moon\u2019s surface consistently.<\/p>\n

In the last phase, NASA and its partners will deliver larger habitats and vehicles as they transition from short-term trips to a permanent human presence on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 NASA announced its plan to build a $20 billion moon base over the next seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16566,16567,382665,312985,377774,147010,52729,718,79],"class_list":["post-915789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-artemis-iv","tag-artemis-v","tag-china-space-race","tag-commercial-partners","tag-lunar-missions","tag-moon-base","tag-moon-habitats","tag-nasa","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}