We are going to the Moon — but this time, to stay.

The To the Moon to Stay program brings together the MIT community to reimagine humanity’s return to the Moon. Our payloads will be deployed on a Lunar Outpost MAPP rover to the Lunar south pole. The MAPP rover is carried by an Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander, which in turn rides aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Moon photos throughout site © Cosmic Background Photography

Who We Are

Learn who’s who in our lunar mission


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Work With Us

Support our work and help us as we lead MIT to the Moon


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AstroAnt Payload

A miniature robotic swarm


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Camera Payload

Assessing analog extreme environments

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HUMANS Payload

Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space

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Operating in the Lunar Environment

Learn about the course that started this whole mission


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Lunar Outpost
MAPP Rover

See it in action


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The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

— Arthur C. Clarke, The View from Serendip (1977)