WASHINGTON — As NASA prepares to request proposals from industry to develop the first element of its proposed cislunar gateway, the agency says it may be open to buying more than one of the modules.

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

Earlier this month, NASA released a set of photos highlighting a newly arrived module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027. That module is HALO ...

its intent to use one or more existing contracts already in place via the NextSTEP-2 BAA Appendix A, Habitat Systems in order to meet the Gateway Program schedule. The NextSTEP-2 Appendix A ...

An illustration of NASA's proposed Deep Space Gateway in orbit around the moon. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is taking the next small step in the development of a proposed Deep Space Gateway in ...

NASA has chosen satellite manufacturer Maxar Technologies to build the very first piece of the lunar Gateway — a new space station the agency wants to create in orbit around the Moon. The Gateway is ...

From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity's first lunar space station, is now one step closer to the moon. As seen in this April 1, 2025, photo, HALO ...

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a US$187 million contract to design the Habitation And Logistics Outpost (HALO) crew module for NASA's Gateway deep space outpost. Based on the unmanned Cygnus cargo ...

BREMEN, Germany – Europe's aerospace industry is getting ready for NASA's proposed Deep Space Gateway, hoping Europe will have its own module at the lunar-orbit space station resupplied by a European ...

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