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#Artemis II ร—

Nasa lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list

Nasa is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis IIโ€™s record-breaking lunar fly-around. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four US companies. Jeff Bezosโ€™ Blue Origin will provide a pair of landers to deliver moon buggies to the lunar surface, at a spot near the moonโ€™s south pole. These so-called lunar terrain vehicles will be...