๐ NASA Awards Nearly $600M to Lay the Groundwork for a Permanent Moon Base
NASA handed out contracts to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines totaling nearly $600 million to land cargo near the Moon's south pole in late 2028. Each mission carries the same trio of science instruments to study hazardous landing dust, map radiation levels, and sharpen lunar navigation โ all critical data for keeping future astronauts safe long-term. It's the most ambitious push yet under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program and a direct step toward sustained human presence on the Moon. What would actually living on the Moon change about how we explore the solar system?
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