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Gateway

Built with international and commercial partners, Gateway will be humanity’s first space station around the Moon as a vital component of NASA’s deep space exploration plans to the Moon, Mars and beyond

Future Mission

lunar space station

A Deep Space Home

Humanity's next science platform

A New Era in Science

NEXT-GEN TECHNOLOGY

Lunar Powerhouse

Gateway is a vital component of the NASA-led Artemis missions to return to the Moon and chart a path for the first human missions to Mars. The small space station will be a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the Moon and providing essential support for lunar surface missions, a destination for science, and serving as a staging point for further deep space exploration. NASA is working with commercial and international partners to establish Gateway.

Mission Type

Lunar space station

International Partners

ESA, CSA and JAXA

Launch

Expected 2025

polar ORBIT

Near-rectilinear halo orbit
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Gateway: A Deep Space Home, and So Much More

As future Artemis missions establish humanity’s long-term presence on and around the Moon, habitation elements on the Gateway space station…

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From childhood stargazing to building a lunar space station

Oliver Ortiz always wondered what was beyond the city lights.

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