The Moon Base initiative is NASA’s effort to establish infrastructure near the moon’s south pole that would support continuous human and robotic operations, scientific research and commercial activity.

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NASA has awarded three more companies with contracts to deliver payloads to the moon's surface as part of its effort to build a lunar base. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has the details.

Three months ago, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency was making a major pivot from building a space station in lunar orbit to a base on the surface. This “Ignition” event followed an earlier announcement in which NASA also said it was ending development of a new upper stage for its Space Launch System rocket.

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NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Isaacman said NASA is also weighing how the human body will hold up in the moon's gravity, about one-sixth of Earth's, after decades of research on the International Space Station in microgravity.

A Canyon student got to work on designing a Lunar Rover as part of the NASA summer program. Her experience may lead her to a new career path.