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Starship HLS. Starship HLS (Human Landing System) [a] is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land ...
Artemis 4 →. Artemis 3 (officially Artemis III) [6] is planned to be the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Starship HLS lander. [7] Artemis 3 is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first American crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972. [8]
Starship Human Landing System (HLS) is a planned crewed lunar lander variant of the Starship vehicle that would be modified for landing, operation, and takeoff from the lunar surface. HLS features landing legs, a body-mounted solar array , [43] a set of thrusters mounted mid-body to assist with final landing and takeoff, [43] two airlocks , [42 ...
A robotic lunar lander developed by Houston-based Intuitive Machines became the first private spacecraft to land on the moon Thursday. The Odysseus lunar lander’s victory, the first U.S. landing ...
The Intuitive Machines mission, if successful, could make it the first private company to land on the Moon, and would also be the first US landing on the lunar surface since Nasa’s 1972 Apollo ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, in 2022 (AP) ... A spacecraft designed by a Japanese company crashed during a lunar landing attempt in April ...
t. e. The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program that is led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1. The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 moon mission in 1972.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Odysseus lunar lander lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 15. (Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images)