The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans.

The new initiative includes a base on the moon, a nuclear-powered flight to Mars and a replacement for the ISS.

In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated base on the moon.

The agency is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and ​will instead use its components to construct the ‌base, NASA chief Jared Isaacman announced Tuesday.

The space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered rocket to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

NASA is hitting the reset button on its return to the moon and going even bigger. The agency is fast tracking a permanent base on the moon's surface.

The race back to the Moon just took a dramatic—and costly—turn. In a bold shake-up of its Artemis program, NASA is scrapping its long-planned lunar orbiting station to pursue something far more

The goal is to strengthen U.S. leadership presence in space by creating a sustain human presence on the moon, according to the agency.