NASA unveiled plans in March to develop a lunar base as part of its “Ignition” event that outlined the agency’s new direction in human spaceflight. The plans, though, were rather notional: a three-phase effort to set up a base in the south polar region of the moon spanning more than a decade and costing more than $30 billion. There were few specifics about missions, including who would launch what and when.
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