NASA accelerates plans to build permanent moon base

NASA has announced that it has cancelled a planned orbital space station to expedite its plans to build a permanent lunar base on the moon "landing by landing and incrementally" .

Announced on 24 March, the shift in focus is part of agency-wide strategies to hurriedly "achieve President Donald Trump's National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space", according to NASA.

The lunar base will feature three major stations according to the space agency, with a reported $20...