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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 ...
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 ...
380 s (3.7 km/s) (vacuum) Propellant. Liquid oxygen / Methane. [ edit on Wikidata] Starship is a two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. As of May 2024, it is the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. [4] Starship's primary objective is to lower launch costs significantly via economies of scale. [5]
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]
An illustration of a SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry the first Nasa astronauts to the Moon (SpaceX) A crewed flight of Starship HLS (Human Landing System) will not take place ...
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 ...
Artemis program. The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program that is led by the United States' National Aeronoautics 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 ...
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)