Was.
www.cbsnews.com
and on tv. I did.
Yes. The Moon is a pitstop for Mars.
A military base on the moon.
We were promised Mars by 1980, had already been on the Moon.
I was a big fan of the space program throughout the 60s and 70s but don't recall anyone promising Mars by 1980. We were focused on near-Earth projects then; the International Space Station and the Shuttle.
I believe that there is... Mostly because China has such a plan.
This is about this trip, not about long term plans.Was.
============================
In late February 2026, NASA expedited Artemis III back to 2027, but it would no longer land on the Moon. Instead, it would conduct rendezvous and docking tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially developed lunar landers—SpaceX's Starship HLS and Blue Origin's Blue Moon—and to test the new Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) space suit
Artemis III - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Agreed. The Chinese are planning to pull ahead of the US in space.
Redoing what we did almost 60 years ago is not a mission.....this was supposed to have a point....but the Moon base idea looks less and less likely by the day.
Everything goes slowly when government is involved. This is the trip around the moon, the next one will be the landing on the moon, then ones after that will be the "make base" portion of things... It will take longer than you want, but saying there is no plan for it because they didn't do it now is just absurd, flies in the face of what we know about such things.