NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue

Key points

• NASA is working to give lunar landers the option of docking with its Orion spacecraft in low-lunar orbit, a few hundred kilometres above the Moon. NASA says this would greatly cut the fuel that Blue Moon needs to carry astronauts to the surface and back.
• NASA has also announced work with United Launch Alliance on an extended version of the Centaur V upper stage. Together with the Space Launch System core stage, it would allow Orion to reach low-lunar orbit, a capability NASA has long lacked.
• Administrator Isaacman said the agency is helping its landing partners.