New Delhi, March 24 -- NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed the three-phase plan to build a permanent US base on the Moon. He said NASA plans to invest $20 billion over the next seven years to develop a base on the moon's surface. It's part of the US's goal to not only send humans back to the lunar surface but also to allow them to live there.

Isaacman's statement came just days before the scheduled launch of NASA's Artemis 2 lunar mission which is parts of NASA's program to humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Isaacman said a Moon Base will be built to "sustain human presence on the Moon."

"This time, the goal is not flags and footprints. This time, the goal is to stay," Isaacman said while providing an u...