NASA Seeks To Establish Roster Of Lunar Science Concepts For Payloads, Research Investigations On Surface Of Moon

PRISM Stage-1 RFI Outreach To Scientists Open 10 April – 11 May; Mission Ideas Generated Are To Be Catalogued By NASA For Potential Development In Collaboration With Commercial Partners; PRISM Stage-2 Expected Summer 2020 Will Influence Future Landing Sites; CLPS Awardees Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, Masten Slated For 2021-2022 Payload Delivery To Moon Surface, Followed By JSC-Made VIPER In 2023 And Artemis III Human Landings in 2024 Via SLS, Orion And TBD Lander Assisted By Scaled-Down Gateway; Plans Call For Artemis Base Camp Near Lunar South Pole, Widely Considered Most Likely Area For Prospecting Success

Credits: NASA, SpaceX, Intuitive Machines