NASA Moon Base Plans: Artemis, the Lunar South Pole, and the Buildout of a Permanent Human Outpost (opens in new tab)

NASA’s Moon Base plans now place the lunar South Pole at the center of the agency’s next stage of human exploration. The location matters because it combines scientific value, operational difficulty, potential resource access, and symbolic weight. NASA presents the Moon Base as the future home base for Artemis astronauts, a surface outpost where crews will live, work, test systems, conduct science, and prepare operational methods for later missions to Mars. The plan is no longer framed only a...