NASA Fast-Tracks Plans for $20 Billion Moon Base

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman also wants to accelerate launch capabilities to land crews on the lunar surface every six months.

Artist’s concept of Phase 3 of NASA’s Moon Base. NASA

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled an initiative on March 24 to expedite the construction of a $20 billion lunar base that would ultimately support permanent human crews.

“We will invest approximately $20 billion over the next seven years and build [the base] through dozens of missions, working together with commercial and international partners towards a deliberate and achievable plan,” he told a room of politicians and representatives of space partners in Washington, D.C.