naiwa 2026-03-25

Over the next seven years, NASA plans to deploy a full-fledged lunar base, abandoning the construction of the Gateway orbital station
During a major address at NASA headquarters, new Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined a sweeping overhaul of the agency's flagship Artemis moon programme. The most significant shift is the decision to pause development of the Gateway lunar orbiting space station in its current form. Instead, NASA will redirect its focus and existing Gateway hardware toward building sustainable infrastructure directly on the lunar surface. According to The New York Times, NASA plans to invest approximately $20 billion over the next seven years into the project, which will require dozens of individual missions to complete.





The project will be deployed in three stages:
Transition to regular (up to monthly) automated flight