NASA officials on Tuesday detailed the space agency’s plans to establish a lunar base, where astronauts could live and work long-term with the ultimate goal of studying the moon and its origins, as well as how best to send the first humans to Mars.

The base would be “humanity's first outpost on another celestial world”

Nasa has unveiled its plan to construct a Moon base involving robotic landers, moon buggies and hopping drones. The US space agency has envisaged a permanent lunar base sprawling over hundreds of square miles in the south polar region.