NASA Moon Base

It's been another busy week across the agency. Here's what's new! ⚽ @FIFAcom World Cup match ball 🔭 Roman at @NASAKennedy 🤖 ERNEST rover testing 🏛️ @Freedom250 Great American State Fair 🌕 @NASAMoonBase update next week Follow along for more!

We are at the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C.! Discover the technology and science driving our most exciting missions by visiting the NASA Pavilion—today through July 10: #american-state-fair" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nasa.gov/freedom250/#am…

What's next for @NASAMoonBase? Join us on Tuesday, June 30 at 2:30pm ET (1830 UTC) for a live news event where we'll share updates on our plans for lunar exploration and the next steps toward establishing an enduring human presence on the Moon. go.nasa.gov/4wcDoPu

Ground Control to Moon Base. 📡🌕 Future lunar explorers will need a way to stay connected with Earth — and each other. Learn how NASA is developing a communications network to support a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole. nasa.gov/podcasts/houst…

Hello, Griffin-1! We’re pleased to have helped advance the Hazard Detection Lidar technology that will scan and analyze the Moon’s terrain in real-time to map and select the safest landing site. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4fSlkFo Credit: @astrobotictechnology

A Moon Base lander is one step closer to the lunar South Pole.  @astrobotic recently unveiled the Griffin-1 lunar lander, now ready for environmental testing at @nasajpl ahead of its late-2026 launch. Griffin-1 will deliver payloads supporting Moon Base Phase One.

We are returning to the Moon, to build something extraordinary and continue mankinds greatest adventure to the stars. @NASAMoonBase will serve as an outpost for science, technology demonstrations, and the development of capabilities that will shape the future of exploration and prepare us for Mars.

Everybody say "Hi, LESTR" 👋 This machine at our center is helping NASA study how materials behave in super-cold environments. Putting electronics and other flight hardware to the test at extremely low temperatures will be critical as we look to build a Moon Base near the lunar South Pole, where nights can be bitterly cold.

The Artemis Generation is here. Artemis III will help us get into the rhythm of multi-launch campaigns, test new capabilities close to home, and then take the next step toward building a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole.

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.

LIVE: Meet the crew of our next Artemis mission. We're sharing the latest updates on Artemis III: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We're going back to the Moon, and this time, we’re building to stay. Here’s what’s new this week in your @NASA Minute! 🌖 Moon Base plans announced 🚀 Artemis III booster segments on the move 🧑‍🚀 Artemis III crew announcement coming June 9 ✈️ X-59 goes supersonic

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy. Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead. There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems. We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes. @NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible. America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 

Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult. We will work with our partners to support a thorough investigation of this anomaly, assess near-term mission impacts, and get back to launching rockets. 
We will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available.

The entire event yesterday, launching missions, landers, rovers, tech demos building a Moon Base, and sci-fi capabilities like MoonFall, brought to you by those who Dare Mighty Things. Just the very beginning. What a time 🇺🇸

Four JPL-built propulsive drones – known as MoonFall – will survey the lunar surface at potential @NASAArtemis landing sites in unprecedented detail. The mission is part of the initial phase of the @NASAMoonBase initiative. Learn more: jpl.nasa.gov/missions/moonf…

Future @NASAMoonBase engineers in action! During NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge, college students from across the country engineered autonomous robots to excavate and move lunar soil simulant – and the results were incredible. Meet this year’s winning teams: go.nasa.gov/4dVDRy2

The near impossible is becoming possible. We are building toward a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole. It begins with Phase 1: CLPS landers and LTV rovers testing the “science of survival” on the lunar surface before heavy HLS cargo landers deliver the mass and infrastructure needed for an enduring presence. We are building the Moon Base for all we will learn, the innovation that will improve life on Earth, the inspiration for the next generation of explorers, and to master the skills needed for where we will inevitably go next...Mars. The Golden Age of lunar exploration has begun.

@NASAMoonBase @blueorigin @NASAAdmin @astrobotic @astrolab We have awarded @LunarOutpostInc with a lunar terrain vehicle award. Their Pegasus rover is capable of manual, autonomous, or teleoperated driving at speeds more than 9 mph. Early surface mobility will help us create an enduring presence on the Moon.

We have awarded @AstroLab_Space with a lunar terrain vehicle award. Their Crewed Lunar Vehicle is a rover designed to transport astronauts and supplies across the lunar surface. This vehicle will be deployed to the Moon by 2028 through our commercial lunar payload services initiative.