https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeline_of_artemis_missions_until_the_2040s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeli

https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeline_of_artemis_missions_until_the_2040s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/artemisnasa/comments/12jox39/timeli... Does the lunar gateway meet your definition of a "moonbase"? Because if you mean "long-term human presence at the moon" (at least, in the same sense in which we have "long-term human presence in orbit" with the ISS) then the answer seems to be "possibly as soon as the early 2030's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway