NASA's Artemis Program Expands with Multiple Moon Bases and Underwater Training.

NASA's Artemis program may build multiple moon bases instead of a single Artemis Base Camp at the lunar south pole. The agency is studying whether it is a better idea to have a distributed approach with multiple moon bases, including some potentially contributed by international partners like the European Space Agency, Canada or Japan. Having multiple, smaller Artemis bases on the moon may yield better science and access to the lunar surface. NASA's next Artemis mission is Artemis 2, which will launch four astronauts around the moon no earlier than November 2024.