NASA is canceling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and ​will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion ‌base on the moon’s surface over the next seven years, its new chief Ja...

NASA is hitting the accelerator on space missions and moon trips in the hopes of achieving some big firsts — a permanent moon base and an interplanetary spacecraft harnessing nuclear propulsion.

That is sending companies ​scrambling to accommodate the extra urgency ‌as China makes progress ⁠toward its ​own 2030 moon landing.