The space agency aims to establish a permanent presence on the lunar surface with its Artemis program.
NASA may build several moon bases for its upcoming Artemis missions instead of the one Artemis Base Camp advertised when the space agency first revealed its plans for colonizing the moon, a reportDuring a press briefing on Monday, April 17, Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator for exploration systems development, told reporters, "It's really hard to say we're going to have a single base camp.
Now, it turns out that NASA may be looking to expand those initial plans by working with international partners to establish a series of moon bases.At the press conference, Free explains that NASA is analyzing the potential benefits of building several moon camps with the aid of Artemis program partners such as the European Space Agency .
"So we can maybe have two or three sites to go to that help our science diversity because the reason we're doing Artemis in the first place is for science," Free said.China and Russia
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