NASA outlined its plans to build a permanent moon base during a briefing at the space agency's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday

The first missions toward building a base on the moon will launch before the end of the year, NASA leaders announced Tuesday. “We are leveraging the NASA playbook from the 1960s, figuring out what works and what doesn’t in this epic science of survival,

Four astronauts will be part of the next mission in the agency’s program to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2028. The recent explosion of a Blue Origin rocket could complicate matters.

"This is when living and working on the Moon becomes a reality," NASA said about "humanity’s first lunar outpost."

NASA has revealed a plan to build a permanent moon base the size of a city as part of a historic push to keep humans living on the lunar surface full-time by 2032. The space agency also announced

The base would be “humanity's first outpost on another celestial world”

NASA has awarded major contracts for lunar rovers, landers, and cargo missions as plans for a permanent Moon base move closer to reality.

The FLEX Rover will be equipped to carry two astronauts and traverse hundreds of miles of lunar terrain.

NASA officials expressed several reasons for making the moon base, in effect, a small city.

We've been hearing from NASA about its plans for a moon base to keep a permanent human presence there. It could end up covering the size of a large city - and Mars is next in the agency's sights. Follow the latest below.

And soon, so will the astronauts heading to the moon. Commercial aerospace company Axiom Space and luxury fashion house Prada showcased the innermost layer of NASA’s next-generation lunar spacesuit. It is called the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) and will be worn inside the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit.