NASA Shelves Orbital Gateway, Redirects Hardware to $20 Billion Lunar Surface Base
NASA announced it is pausing the Lunar Gateway orbital station in its current form and will use parts of that program to build a $20 billion base on the moon’s surface. The agency, led by Jared Isaacman who assumed leadership in December, also revealed plans to send a nuclear-electric propulsion demonstrator called Space Reactor 1 Freedom to Mars b…