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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 a crew on the Moon.
The dearMoon project is a lunar tourism mission and art project conceived and financed by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. It will make use of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft on a private spaceflight flying a single circumlunar trajectory around the Moon. The passengers will be Maezawa and eight other civilians, and there may be one or two ...
This marked the inaugural Nova-C landing on the Moon and the first American spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon in over 50 years. [9] [10] It is the first spacecraft to use methalox propulsion to navigate between the Earth and the Moon.
The instruments would help shed more light on the Moon’s plume and surface interactions, space weather, radio astronomy, precision landing technologies, as well as a communication and navigation ...
SpaceX has a $2.9 billion contract with NASA to develop Starship as the Human Landing System that will carry U.S. astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than half a century under ...
The Odysseus lander launched atop a SpaceX rocket on a journey to the lunar surface — aiming for the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the moon in decades.
The Space Launch System, Orion spacecraft and the Human Landing System form the main spaceflight infrastructure for Artemis, and the Lunar Gateway plays a supporting role in human habitation. Supporting infrastructures for Artemis include the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, VIPER rover, development of ground infrastructures, Artemis Base Camp on the Moon, Moon rovers and spacesuits. Some ...
Starship Human Landing System (HLS) is a crewed lunar lander variant of the Starship vehicle that is extensively modified for landing, operation, and takeoff from the lunar surface.