๐ NASA Repurposed Its Canceled Space Station Hardware to Build a Moon Base Instead
After scrapping the Gateway lunar station, NASA and Northrop Grumman are redirecting HALO module hardware into three Lunar Infrastructure Demo missions (LID-1, 2, 3) that will test power, thermal control, and comms through the brutal two-week lunar night near the South Pole. Blue Origin, Firefly, Intuitive Machines, and Voyager are all racing to deliver landers by 2028. Could this pivot be the most practical path yet to a permanent lunar outpost?
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