NASA announced on September 30, 2026, the selection of three scientific investigation suites for its planned Moon Base. The agency said the payloads, chosen through its PRISM program, were intended to fly to the lunar surface via the CLPS initiative, supporting the Artemis and Moon Base programs. A later editor's note said the release was updated on October 2, 2026, to correct the full names of the DISCO and GIMLI payloads.

The three suites are the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station – South Pole, designed for long-term environmental and hazard monitoring including micrometeoroids, drifting volatiles and seismic events; GIMLI, planned for the Marius Hills Pit to examine whether it leads into a large underground lava tube; and DISCO, intended to make direct ground measurements of ice in lunar micro-cold traps and study surface behavior. Principal investigators are listed at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the Planetary Science Institute and NASA's Ames Research Center, respectively.

Nicky Fox, NASA's associate administrator for science, said the selections would help minimize risks to astronauts. NASA described the findings as groundwork for a sustained human presence and future resource use. The payloads and their delivery remained planned at the time of the release.