'It's really hard to say we're going to have a single base camp.'
"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.
NASA's Artemis program originally aimed to roll out a base camp on the moon in stages using an orbiting Gateway station, landers, rovers and habitats as seen in this timeline illustration. The plan may now include additional moon bases, an official said April 17., which has long been on the agency's candidate list to explore on an Artemis mission because it is known to harbor water ice in its shadowed regions.
Under the Base Camp plan, the habitat would include power infrastructure, radiation shielding, facilities for waste disposal and a landing pad for visiting crews. It would also be home to a lunar rover that astronauts could drive around the moon and a"habitable mobility platform" that crews could use to visit other locales on the moon for up to 45 days at a time.
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