NASA Plans Permanent Base On Moon, Paving The Way For Future Mars Missions
One of the biggest goals is to extract water ice from the lunar surface.

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One of the biggest goals is to extract water ice from the lunar surface.
India is the only nation that has soft landed a spacecraft in the vicinity of the lunar South Pole.
Water ice can be vital to sustaining an extraterrestrial settlement.
NASA is looking to establish an ambitious lunar outpost programme, a first of its kind in the world where humans (astronauts) will make the Moon’s south pole a home from where they will live, work and conduct scientific activities over the next decade and beyond
NASA has invited ISRO to participate in its latest lunar programme, which seeks to build a human outpost near the Moon’s south pole, where sunlight is available for longer periods and permanently shadowed craters contain significant deposits of water ice
The crater, dubbed “McGetchin”, measures 730 feet (222 metres) wide, and it is believed to have been created in the spring of 2024 from a comet or asteroid colliding with the Moon