Dr. Laurie Glaze

The newly released renderings from NASA show astronauts, moon buggies and hopping drones spread across the moon's surface.

At an event in Washington to unveil the next stage of the Artemis program, Dr. Laurie Glaze, who leads NASA's exploration missions, says they're eyeing a more sustained lunar presence.

It's a multi-decade effort and NASA says the aim is to develop a lunar habitat at the moon's south pole by 2032.

Here's Carlos Garcia-Galam who's heading up the mission.

The hope is that this moon base will provide a hub for astronauts to work alongside robots to study the moon...

and also help prepare for future Mars missions.

William Jones, NPR News.

With moon base...

Artemis astronauts will stay longer, explore farther, and conduct the kinds of science that advances exploration itself.

The newly released renderings from NASA show astronauts, moon buggies and hopping drones spread across the moon's surface.

At an event in Washington to unveil the next stage of the Artemis program, Dr. Laurie Glaze, who leads NASA's exploration missions, says they're eyeing a more sustained lunar presence.

It's a multi-decade effort, and NASA says the aim is to develop a lunar habitat at the moon's south pole by 2032.

Here's Carlos Garcia-Galán, who's heading up the mission.

Then we'll be able to say, hey, we're permanently here and we're not giving it up.

The hope is that this moon base will provide a hub for astronauts to work alongside robots to study the moon...

and also help prepare for future Mars missions.

William Jones, NPR News.

Through Artemis we are going, and with Moonbase we're going to stay. And together, NASA, industry and international partners, we are creating a future where exploration is not just an incredible moment in history, but the first foothold beyond Earth for all of humanity. Our North America correspondent David Willis has been following developments.