List of crewed lunar lander designs

List of crewed lunar lander designs is a list of design for human-crewed lunar landers, that is to say a spacecraft intended to land on the Moon, and for inclusiveness the designs meant to ascend are included also.

Altair lunar lander design from the 2010s

History

A key aspect is achieving a soft landing, and for an ascent stage to successfully escape the Moon's surface gravity.[1] Another aspect is how many stages the design has to achieve its objective, and the amount of passengers and payload it can haul.[1]

See also

References
  1. "NASA studying three-stage approach to human-class lunar landers". SpaceNews.com. 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  2. "NASA seeks a rapid launch of a lunar lander". SpaceNews.com. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  3. Grush, Loren (2019-04-10). "Lockheed Martin unveils lunar lander design to get humans to the Moon by 2024". The Verge. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
  4. "Planting Pumpkins on the Moon: A New Lunar Lander". www.engineering.com. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
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