Moon Base, Moon Buggies & Flying Robots: NASA’s Giant Lunar Neighborhood Is Starting to Take Shape

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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NASA's Moon base starts taking shape with rovers, landers, and drones NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list Contact the Show: coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention all passengers.
0:04.0	The Uber ride for Jeff's rugby team will depart in five minutes from Platform 15.
0:10.0	Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshments carriage that you'll empty within five minutes.
0:16.0	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:20.0	Trains on Uber.
0:22.7	Okay, Micah, what do you want now?
0:25.1	Roy, it's coming home, baby.
0:28.2	Can't you feel it?
0:29.3	The excitement, the group chats, the atmosphere.
0:33.1	Well...
0:34.6	Come on!
0:36.6	I've got a good feeling about this one, Ron. The world's gone football!
0:44.7	Okay, Dan, a bit.
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0:55.0	Welcome to Cool Stuff Daily. I'm Zach Morris. Today we're heading 238,900 miles away to check in on one of humanity's boldest construction projects, a permanent foothold on the moon.
1:06.3	NASA has unveiled new details about how its future lunar base will come together, and it involves
1:11.1	cargo loaders, entomalous rovers, hopping drones, and enough robotic hardware to make
1:15.7	a Mars rover jealous. The goal, turn the moon's south pole into humanity's first long-term outposts
1:21.3	on another world. For years, NASA has talked about Arnimus Space Camp as a future destination.
1:26.7	Now the agency has laid out the
1:28.1	first missions and hardware that will begin building the infrastructure needed to sustain
1:32.4	operations on the lunar surface. NASA administrator Jacob Isaacman described the effort this way,
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