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Patrick Pester

NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft

NASA wants to speed up its lunar missions and establish a permanent moon base.

NASA has announced "near‑impossible" plans to ramp up moon landing activities and launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2028.

The changes are yet another Artemis program shakeup that will see NASA pause its work on humanity's first lunar space station, the lunar Gateway, in order to instead use its parts on a newly announced $20 billion moon base.

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