NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in
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NASA is abandoning its planned lunar Gateway space station to focus on establishing a permanent moon base through its Artemis program. Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the shift aims to simplify operations, compete with China's lunar ambitions, and eliminate fuel constraints that would have plagued landers traveling between Gateway's distant orbit and the lunar surface. The strategy will repurpose existing Gateway hardware for surface systems and develop the lunar base in three phases through 2030 at an estimated cost of $20 billion, supporting NASA's accelerated timeline for returning astronauts to the moon.
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