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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.
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.
The Artemis program is a NASA-led initiative to return humans to the Moon and establish a permanent base there. It involves various missions using the Space Launch System, Orion, Starship, and Lunar Gateway, with the first crewed landing planned for 2026.
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.
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.
Huygens was a robotic space probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005, part of the Cassini–Huygens mission. It was the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth, and it gathered data on Titan's atmosphere and surface.
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.
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.