Human Landing System
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The Human Landing System are spacecraft developed for the NASA-led Artemis program to land astronauts on the Moon. HLS vehicles are designed to transport crews from lunar orbit to the lunar surface, s
The Advanced Exploration Lander, the reference HLS design
Artist's impression of Artemis program HLS ascending (2019)
Artemis III
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Artemis III is an upcoming crewed spaceflight mission of the NASA-led Artemis program. Planned for 2027, the mission is designed as a demonstration flight in low Earth orbit rather than a lunar landin
Human Landing System
…Blue Moon Mark 2. As of March 2026, NASA intends to launch one or both into Earth orbit in mid-2027 for rendezvous and docking tests as part of the Artemis III mission. Selection of the lander for the first crewed lunar landing of the program during the Artemis IV mission in early 2028 will depend on the results…
Assembly of the European Service Module for the planned mission
Crew portrait, from left to right: Parmitano, Douglas, Bresnik, and RubioArtemis program← Artemis IIArtemis IV →
The upper section of the core stage being loaded into the Pegasus barge, April 2026
The Orion spacecraft for Artemis III under construction in February 2022