Anonymous9 days ago
NASA announced on March 24, 2026 that it will pause the Lunar Gateway space station program and redirect resources toward a $20 billion permanent base on the Moon's surface near the south pole. The decision upends years of international collaboration and over a billion dollars in already-built hardware, while fundamentally restructuring the Artemis program's timeline—pushing the first crewed landing to 2028 under a new surface-first architecture designed to counter China's accelerating lunar ambitions.