NASA to set up the first human base camp on South Pole of Moon

American space agency NASA is working on the Artemis program that aims to land humans on the moon by 2024. The space agency has put forward a plan showing what a US lunar presence may look like after the milestone. NASA submitted a 13-page report to the National Space Council on 2 April.

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NASA’s Artemis program plans to establish a base camp on the Moon by 2024. NASA has also revealed a plan that showed the US lunar presence after achieving the milestone. It plans to test technologies and secure resources on the surface of the Moon, before exploring Mars. NASA plans to conduct several operations on and around the moon and for that, they require Artemis Base Camp. It will be their first sustainable foothold on the lunar frontier.