NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base at the Moon's South Pole

The project's first mission could arrive as soon as this year, with a little help from Blue Origin. NASA's concept for a lunar base that it plans to build over the next few years. NASA finally presented the details of its phased plan to create the first lunar base at the moon's south pole. Although the construction of a space research center that will allow a sustained human presence will take at least a decade, the missions that will lay its technological and symbolic foundations will start in the next few years. Among them is the test of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander, scheduled for the end of 2026.