No country has a functioning Moon base in 2026, and no human has landed on the Moon since 1972. NASA restructured Artemis III into a crewed Earth-orbit test af…
ISRO's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover touched down in the lunar south-polar region on August 23, 2023, making India the first country to land intact that far south and…
With both SpaceX's Starship HLS and Blue Origin's Blue Moon behind schedule, NASA reprofiled Artemis III from a lunar landing into a crewed Earth-orbit rendezvous and do…
Four astronauts flew Orion on a crewed flyby around the Moon — the first crewed Artemis mission and the first humans near the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The mission d…
China's most complex lunar mission yet — an orbiter, lander, mini-hopping probe and rover — targeted launch on August 24, 2026, to search for water ice at the South Pole…
NASA targets Artemis III's reprofiled crewed docking test for 2027, alongside Gateway's first two modules (PPE and HALO) and Gaganyaan's first crewed flight in the same…
NASA is targeting Artemis IV, supported by Gateway, as its first crewed lunar surface landing since Apollo 17 — alongside India's Chandrayaan-4 sample-return target and…
China's stated goal is a crewed lunar landing before 2030, using two Long March 10 launches, lunar-orbit rendezvous, and the Mengzhou spacecraft and Lanyue lander — hard…
Under Space Vision 2047, India's official target is an indigenous crewed lunar landing by 2040 — deliberately built on a longer sequence: robotic exploration, sample ret…
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