NASA has detailed its initial plans for a moon base, featuring visualizations of landers, rovers, and drones. The agency also awarded significant contracts to four US companies for this lunar initiative.

NASA on Tuesday outlined the first phase of a sprawling moon base plans on Tuesday, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround, with visualisations of landers, rovers and drones. The space agency also awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four US companies.