To go with AFP story by Lucie AUBOURG: "What will the future moon base look like?" / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ASTROBOTIC / HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
This image courtesy of Astrobotic shows an artistic illustration of LunaGrid, a power generation and distribution service developed for the Moon. - The next time NASA goes to the Moon, it intends to stay. Under the Artemis program, the US space agency plans to colonize, for the very first time, a celestial body other than Earth.
But building a lunar base is no simple feat. It will need power generators, vehicles, and habitats, and the space industry is racing to meet the technological challenges. (Photo by Astrobotic / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ASTROBOTIC / HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS