“America is returning to the moon,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a news conference from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. He said that while NASA will be “leveraging” its playbook from the first human moon landing in 1969, this time the goal is to stay.

Lunar Outpost Pegasus LTV Pegasus gives Artemis Astronauts safe, reliable, and highly capable mobility to explore and build the first elements of

The base's perimeter may be marked by hopping "MoonFall" drones, and new moon rovers built by AstroLab and Lunar Outpost will carry astronauts around the site.

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Record Q1 revenue and a $1.1 billion backlog gave Intuitive Machines a strong operating backdrop, but NASA’s rover awards to Lunar Outpost and Astrolab shifted attention to backlog conversion and the next round of lunar infrastructure work.

NASA has taken a major step toward keeping astronauts on the moon for good. The space agency revealed a historic lunar push on Tuesday as it races toward a planned human moon landing in 2027. The