After 50 years humans are going back to the moon. Artemis is the first step in the next era of human exploration. Together with commercial and international partners, NASA will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to prepare for missions to Mars. The agency's Artemis Base Camp proposal features a contemporary lunar cabin, a rover, and even a mobile home to provide astronauts with a place to live and work on the Moon. Early missions will involve brief surface stays, but as the base camp develops, the objective is to enable people to spend up to two months at the lunar surface at a time. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) who developed the concept in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposed a Moon Village in 2019 which is based on a set of habitable modules that can be transported to the Moon separately and seamlessly linked on site in a variety of configurations.

Image: Moon Village by SOM