Welding ✅⁣ ⁣ Gateway space station’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module is one step closer to launch following welding completion in Turin, Italy. ⁣ ⁣ HALO is one of four Gateway modules where NASA’s #Artemis astronauts will live, conduct science, and prepare for lunar surface missions. NASA is partnering with NorthropGrumman and their subcontractor ThalesAleniaSpace to develop the module.⁣ ⁣ Built with international and commercial partners, Gateway will be humanity’s first space station around the Moon as a vital component of NASA’s deep space exploration plans to the Moon, Mars and beyond.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Interior view of Gateway’s HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module following the completion of welding in Turin, Italy. The perspective of the image peers through the cylindrical module’s silver chrome paneling to the far end, where a bright light shines through a circular docking port. ⁣ ⁣ Credit: Northrop Grumman/Thales Alenia Space⁣ ⁣ #Gateway #NASA...