NASA ramps up its effort to build a base on the moon and sets a timetable for the project

The first missions toward building a base on the moon will launch before the end of the year, NASA leaders announced Tuesday.

“We are leveraging the NASA playbook from the 1960s, figuring out what works and what doesn’t in this epic science of survival,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told reporters at a news conference, “because the moon base is as beautiful as it is hostile.”