Lunar lander

A Lunar lander or Moon lander is a kind of space vehicle designed for landing on the surface of Earth's Moon.

Examples of lunar landers or programs to design lunar landers include:

• Lunar Lander (space mission), an ESA mission to send an autonomous lander to the moon
• Lunar Lander Challenge, a competition to produce VTVL vehicles with sufficient delta-v to fly from the Moon to orbit
• Apollo Lunar Module, used for the 1969-1972 human spaceflight program of the United States
• LK Lander, designed for the human spaceflight program of the Soviet Union
• Altair (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft previously known as the Lunar Surface Access Module
• Luna programme, lander spacecraft used by the Soviet Union for robotic exploration of the Moon
• Mighty Eagle lander (previously called NASA Robotic Lunar Lander) current NASA program for developing a new generation of small, autonomous lunar landers^[1]
• Surveyor Program, lander spacecraft used by the United States for robotic exploration of the Moon
• Project Morpheus, a NASA research and development program whose test bed may evolve into a 21st Century lunar lander

See also

• List of man-made objects on the Moon, a list of objects that have landed or crashed on the Moon

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