Moon Base

Moon Base
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations.
Posted August 4, 2026
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Artemis
Commercial Space
Goddard Space Flight Center
Moon Base
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Space Communications & Navigation Program
NASA delivered the NavCube3-mini payload on July 13 to Intuitive Machines for integration into Altus-1, the company’s first lunar relay satellite, marking an important milestone in the development of future lunar communications and navigation services. The lunar relays are designed to enable communications and navigation for astronauts and rovers o
Posted August 3, 2026
Moon Base
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Science Mission Directorate
Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify the engineering development version for the PROMISE rover. NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s Moon Base Program. Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines will deliver […]
Posted June 30, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative
Moon Base
Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations that function together cohesively on the surface of the Moon. To accelerate the development of key lunar surface systems and reduce risk, NASA and industry must work together in the design, development, testing, and evaluation of innovative solutions that support U.S.
Posted June 29, 2026
Moon Base
Earth's Moon
Missions
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, to share updates to NASA’s plans to build a Moon Base on the lunar surface. Administrator Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, Moon Base program manager, will discuss the next set of awards for new lunar lander missions and preview upcoming […]
Posted June 25, 2026
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Missions
Moon Base
Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center
Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center
A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars departed the spaceport and arrived at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
Posted June 2, 2026
Kennedy Space Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Moon Base
Robotics
STEM Engagement at NASA
Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, to correct the recipient of the Systems Engineering Leaps and Bounds Award. Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base.
Posted May 27, 2026
Humans in Space
Artemis
Missions
Moon Base
Editor’s note: Release was updated May 27, 2026, to provide additional details on the crewed lunar terrain vehicles. During a Moon Base event Tuesday at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, the agency announced new contracts for lunar rovers for crew to drive and uncrewed cargo landers bound for the Moon. NASA leaders also shared target launch […]
Posted May 26, 2026
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