NASA Eyes Supply Chain Bottleneck With Industry Call as Six-Person Moon Base May Need 26 Runs a Year

A six-person lunar outpost operating at its lowest workload lines up with resupply every two weeks. That comes out to around 26 supply runs a year, just over NASA’s target of 25 Moon Base missions by 2029. This is just a scale comparison, not a forecast from the agency. The agent-based model here simulates digital crew members following set rules, running with a three-month baseline.