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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a sweeping space roadmap on March 24, 2026, committing $20 billion over seven years to build a permanent moon base and launching the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars by late 2028. The announcement pauses the Lunar Gateway station, retires the SLS rocket after Artemis III, and represents NASA's most ambitious agenda in decades—but it comes against a backdrop of $6.8 billion in Artemis cost overruns, proposed cuts to Earth science, and a competitive race with China to establish a permanent lunar presence by the 2030s.