• The American space agency NASA has announced that it is working on the Artemis program. NASA aims to land humans on the moon by 2024 through this program.
• NASA also submitted a report to the National Space Council which focused on setting up the Artemis Base Camp at the South Pole of the moon.

About NASA's Artemis program :

• NASA's Artemis program plans to establish a base camp on the Moon by 2024.
• NASA has also revealed a plan that showed the US lunar presence after achieving the milestone. 
• NASA plans to test technologies and secure resources on the surface of the Moon, before exploring Mars.
• NASA plan to conduct several operations on and around the moon and for that, they require Artemis Base Camp. It will be their first sustainable foothold on the lunar frontier.
• The lunar base camp will demonstrate the US's leadership in space and will eventually help them prepare to undertake humanity's first mission to Mars.