NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.

The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The first space race was about flags ...

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned international lunar research station.

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

Taking no chances, SpaceX called off an attempt to launch its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket after running into problems ...

South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with ambitions to create its own lunar base within 20 years.

Opinion NASA to build nuclear reactor on the Moon – a space lawyer explains what the law has to say | The Conversation Published: Aug. 10, 2025, 10:21 a.m.