If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
by Stephen Clark from Ars Technica - All content on (#78X0S)
It's no surprise that NASA's new tack toward foreign partnerships-good deals only, please-is challenging preconceived notions of international cooperation in space.
Without a massive budget hike, the US space agency's emphasis on building a Moon Base and winning a competition for lunar real estate and resources with China will inevitably leave lesser priorities behind.
Gone is the Lunar Gateway, a space station that was to be assembled in orbit around the Moon. For the United States, Gateway was an unnecessary distraction and expense as NASA goes all-in on placing a surface station near the Moon's south pole.