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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 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.
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.
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.
Huygens (/ ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / HOY-gənz) was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it was part of the Cassini–Huygens mission and became the first spacecraft to land on Titan and the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made. [3]
A comprehensive chronological list of space missions to the Moon from 1959 to 2023, including launch dates, carrier rockets, operators, mission types, and outcomes. See the first lunar flyby, impact, orbit, landing, rover, sample return, and far side exploration missions.
Learn about the past and present attempts to land spacecraft on Mars, from the first successful Soviet mission in 1971 to the latest Chinese rover in 2021. Find out how different methods of descent and landing have been used, and what are the current limitations and future prospects for human exploration of Mars.