NASA selects 12 projects to study the moon as it ramps up plans for 2024 Artemis mission

NASA has keyed in on a dozen technologies that will help humans on their next mission to the moon in 2024. The payloads which will be sent to the moon aboard one of NASA's landers, will aid the agency in its ambitious Artemis mission. NASA's next lunar landing will not only mark the first attempt to put humans back on the moon since 1972 -- including the first-ever woman -- but will eventually set forth the construction of a lunar base and a satellite called the'lunar gateway.' A new moon rover is among the technologies that are being studied and designed under NASA's direction for application toward its Artemis mission'The selected lunar payloads represent cutting-edge innovations, and will take advantage of early flights through our commercial services project,' said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington in a statement. 'Each demonstrates either a new science instrument or a technological innovation that supports scientific and human exploration objectives, and many have broader applications for Mars and beyond.'