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Learn about the three locations in the United States where the Space Shuttle system landed, and the runways and surfaces used for each mission. See the details of the 116 missions that landed at Kennedy Space Center, Edwards Air Force Base, and White Sands Space Harbor.
Learn about the Space Shuttle, a retired, partially reusable spacecraft system operated by NASA from 1981 to 2011. Find out how it was designed, launched, and used for various purposes, such as satellite deployment, science experiments, and ISS construction.
Learn about the first human-made object to touch the Moon in 1959 and the six crewed landings by Apollo program from 1969 to 1972. Find out the dates, locations and details of all successful soft and hard landings on the Moon by government and commercial space agencies.
The Shuttle Landing Facility is an airport on Merritt Island, Florida, that was used by Space Shuttle for landing until 2011. It is also used by private companies such as Boeing for the X-37B spacecraft and NASA for Project Morpheus testing.
Starship HLS (Human Landing System) 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 a crew on the Moon.
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station used by SpaceX.They allow the company to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket or the two side boosters of its Falcon Heavy rocket.
A Human Landing System (HLS) is a spacecraft that will land humans on the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis program. Learn about the design competition, the selected vendors, and the timeline for the lunar missions.