NASA, Artemis and Moon
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What can you see when you look up tonight?
Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
NASA has plans for the moon it seems, big plans, and the agency looks to accomplish its goals by investing $20 billion to establish a permanent lunar base.
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In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated base on the moon.
The agency is canceling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and ​will instead use its components to construct the ‌base, NASA chief Jared Isaacman sai.
The space agency is hoping in the future to launch two moon landing missions per year, with the base for future astronauts to stay in while exploring the lunar surface and carrying out research.
Look to the east at sunset tomorrow (March 26) to see the half-lit form of the waxing gibbous moon shining close to the gas giant Jupiter in the evening sky, as the bright stars of the constellation Gemini twinkle nearby.