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.

Nov 18, 2019 · Artist’s concept of a SpaceX commercial lunar lander on the Moon. SpaceX was one of five companies announced on Nov. 18, 2019, as taking part in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative.

Nov 20, 2024 · An artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working with SpaceX to develop the Starship HLS to carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back for Artemis III and Artemis IV.

Nov 21, 2024 · Under the current mission architecture, Starship (a version of it known as the Human Landing System) will dock in lunar orbit with NASA's Orion spacecraft Artemis astronauts will move from the...

Nov 22, 2024 · On November 20th, NASA released new renderings depicting multiple phases of the Artemis III lunar landing, currently scheduled for early 2026. SpaceX’s entire process, …

Apr 19, 2021 · NASA has chosen the rocket to work as a lunar lander on its missions. The agency will launch four astronauts using an Orion spacecraft launched into space by the Space Launch System rocket. The...

Nov 17, 2023 · As SpaceX prepares for its next Starship test, a NASA official said that the use of that vehicle for Artemis lunar landings will require nearly 20 launches.

Mar 24, 2022 · The space agency announced on Wednesday it is asking other American companies to propose lunar lander concepts capable of taking astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon's surface.

Feb 20, 2024 · A SpaceX Starship variant will return humans to the moon in 2025 for the first time since the Apollo era, despite protests from rival Blue Origin.

NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Doug "Wheels" Wheelock participated in a recent test of a sub-scale mockup elevator for SpaceX's Starship human landing system that will be used for NASA's...