Starship HLS 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
Rendering of a future Starship HLS on the Moon
Starship HLS docking system being tested
Illustration of a Starship HLS test article docking with an Orion MPCV for Artemis III.
Blue Moon is a family of lunar landers and their associated infrastructure, intended to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, under development by a consortium led by Blue Origin and including Lockheed
Starship HLS
…2025 to demonstrate a successful landing on the Moon has since been delayed. Following that test, a crewed lunar landing with either Starship HLS or Blue Moon is expected as part of the Artemis IV mission, now scheduled for early 2028. Starship itself has been in privately funded development by SpaceX since…
Rendering of Blue Moon Mark 1
The Blue Origin construction site at Exploration Park in Florida on September 12, 2017.
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo craft approaches the International Space Station