""It should not really surprise anyone that we are pausing Gateway in its current form and focusing on infrastructure that supports sustained operations on the lunar surface," Isaacman told delegates at the event, after criticism of the project as either wasteful or a distraction from other lunar ambitions."
""Despite some of the very real hardware and schedule challenges, we can repurpose equipment and international partner commitments to support surface and other program objectives," the 43-year-old entrepreneur with close ties to SpaceX founder Elon Musk said."
NASA has decided to cancel plans for a lunar orbiting space station, the Lunar Gateway, and will instead invest approximately $20 billion in constructing a base on the moon's surface over the next seven years. New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced this shift during an event at NASA's headquarters, citing the need for infrastructure that supports sustained operations on the lunar surface. The decision comes amid challenges faced by the Artemis II moon project and a competitive landscape with Russia and China in lunar exploration.
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