#lunar gateway

[nocternalrandomness]

Artistic rendering of the "Lunar Gateway" Space station

[lonestarflight]

"Gateway's HALO Module Will Journey to US ahead of NASA’s Artemis IV Moon Mission

Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. After final installations are complete, it will be packaged and transported to the United States for final outfitting before being integrated with Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and launched to lunar orbit.

Image Description: A large cylindrical module, Gateway's Habitation and Logistics Outpost, is suspended by red straps as it is lowered onto a stand in a cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy. Engineers and technicians in white lab coats and helmets observe and guide the process. The cleanroom features metal walkways and bright overhead lighting."

Credit: Thales Alenia Space

Date: February 21, 2025

NASA ID: jsc2025e003428

[spaceexp]

The NASA-led Gateway Program is an international collaboration to establish humanity's first space station around the Moon as a vital component of the Artemis campaign. Gateway will help NASA and its partners test the technologies and capabilities required for a sustained human presence in deep space, and chart a path for the first human missions to Mars.

[astronauticalaspirations]

Main bus of the Lunar Gateway Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) during testing at the Lanteris Space Systems facility in Palo Alto, California on 29 September 2025. PPE will provide electrical power to the Gateway station, and electric propulsion to transport the first elements from LEO to NRHO.

(NASA)

[apollomission8]

Reading about gateway and I have two thoughts

The first being: I freaking called it. Months ago. Like tbh before Isaacman got here I had doubts that was actually going happen.

And the second being: I'm glad honestly. Like it would've been cool, but it never really seemed like a logical thing to do imo. I have had doubts about Artemis for a long time–and the past few months have been the first time I've actually had a bit of confidence in the program.

[qoslaw]

For All Mankinds first season has me so excited for the eventual Lunar Gateway Nasa's creating to help support lunar missions!! Hoping against hope that the Artemis missions will open up NASA to sending up the first trans astronaut

[fandomate]

[speedygal]

NASA Awards Contract to Launch Initial Elements for Lunar Outpost

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Pr

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the foundational elements of the Gateway. As the first long-term orbiting outpost around the Moon, the Gateway is critical to supporting sustainable astronauts missions under the agency’s Artemis program.

After integration on Earth, the PPE and HALO are targeted to launch together no earlier than May 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The total cost to NASA is approximately $331.8 million, including the launch service and other mission-related costs.

This is

HUGE.