Lunar space station will be home base for exploration

In February, NASA announced plans to return to the Moon – permanently. A proposed lunar space station could serve as the home base to launch missions to Mars and beyond, the agency said. Information on exactly how they were going to do this was not available six months ago. But now, NASA is working with Russia and the European Space Agency to make the announcement a reality. The American space agency has shared its first plans for the lunar space station, which will be known as Gateway.  Like …