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About this knowledge base

This is a reference to NASA's Moon to Mars architecture and its Moon Base, compiled by AI from public NASA material. It has more than 300 linked pages. Every statement cites the NASA document and page, or the slide, it comes from.

It is not a NASA product. NASA has not reviewed or endorsed it. It is a snapshot of NASA's public material as downloaded on 1 and 2 October 2026 (UTC); NASA updates its documents and pages without notice. Before relying on a statement, follow its citation to the NASA original.

What's in it

  • The current architecture: the Architecture Definition Document (ADD) Revision C (December 2025) and its spreadsheets of technology gaps, data gaps and objective decompositions, the 2025 Architecture Update, and the 2024–2025 white papers.
  • Moon Base: the Moon Base Users Guide (April 2026), NASA's Moon Base web pages, news and solicitations since the Moon Base was announced in March 2026, and the fact sheets and slide decks from "Ignition", the event where NASA announced it.
  • Workshop slides: NASA's architecture workshops of 2024, 2025 and 2026, including partner agencies' posters.

In all, 39 documents, 54 slide sets and 58 web pages, each listed with its NASA address, download date and, for documents, a fingerprint, on the Sources page. Older material is listed there but not used: earlier revisions of the ADD, the 2023 workshops, historical Mars studies and videos.

How it's organized

How to read it

  • Citations link to a page about the source, which links to the NASA original: "(ADD Rev C, p. 77)". Slides are cited by slide number, web pages by section heading.
  • Where the AI connects things the sources don't, the page says so: "the wiki's join", "the wiki's reading".
  • Where NASA's sources disagree, the page shows both and says which is newer. Slides and talks rank below the architecture documents.

How it was made

AI sessions (Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code) built it, one fresh session per work item. Each read the sources and the pages written so far, then wrote and updated pages under fixed rules (How the pages are written). The sessions could read the project and write these pages, and nothing else: no web, no other tools. Two independent AI reviewers checked about 255 claims against the sources and slide images, and the 15 problems they found were fixed. A person has read parts of it but not every page. The method, with its costs and what went wrong, is described in How it was built; the Build log records what each session read and changed.