Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion US base on the moon’s surface over the next seven years, its new chief Jared Isaacman said on Tuesday. Isaacman, who was sworn in at the agency in December, made the announcement at the opening of a day-long event at NASA’s Washington headquarters at which he outlined a raft of changes he is making to the agency’s flagship moon program Artemis. … The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station in a lunar orbit. Repurposing the craft for a lunar surface base is not simple.” (03/24/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/nasa-lunar-gateway-9.7140073