Back to the Moon
We're going back to the Moon
By alexandra
What’s inside
- LMT Lockheed Martin: Builds the Orion capsule that carried four astronauts around the Moon.
- BA Boeing: Prime on the SLS core stage, the only rocket flying Artemis crews today.
- NOC Northrop Grumman: Makes the solid rocket boosters that lift every SLS launch off the pad.
- LHX L3Harris: Aerojet Rocketdyne engines power SLS; more flights per decade means more engines.
- SPCX SpaceX: Starship HLS is one of the two landers NASA will fly crew to the surface on.
- RKLB Rocket Lab: Small launch and spacecraft supplier riding the cadence increase Isaacman demands.
- BWXT BWX Technologies: Builds compact reactors, the leading answer to powering a base through the lunar night.
- APD Air Products: Liquid hydrogen and oxygen are the fuel and breathing air of every Artemis launch.
- HON Honeywell: Avionics and life-support systems sit inside the crew vehicles NASA keeps flying.
- HWM Howmet Aerospace: Supplies the fasteners and alloys that every rocket and capsule structure depends on.
- TDY Teledyne Technologies: Space imaging and instruments ride along on lunar orbiters, landers and rovers.
- IRDM Iridium: Satellite relay expertise is the template for the lunar comms layer NASA needs.
- ASTS AST SpaceMobile: Direct-to-device satellite work is a speculative read on off-planet connectivity demand.
Why it could work
If Artemis keeps flying and NASA funds a permanent base before China lands, contract dollars flow for a decade to a short list of suppliers.
What could break it
Artemis schedules have slipped repeatedly and a budget cut or a lander failure could stall the whole program.
For learning only. Not investment advice.