Intuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus Lander
Intuitive Machines Nova-C Odysseus landed on the moon Feb. 22, and is the first privately developed spacecraft to touch down on the moon, and the first US spacecraft to do…
SLIM Smart Lander for Investigating Moon Actual Landing
Below, the SLIM Rover and two Rovers, located on the Moon, visible via our Open Lunar Registry for Education online map. An actual image of Japan's SLIM lunar lander and…
Hopper Rover, LEV-1, SLIM Mission
LEV-1, is affectionately known as the Hopping Rover, because of its unique process of traversing the Lunar terrain.
Sora-Q Rover, LEV-2, SLIM Mission
Source: JAXA The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) achieved a major milestone when its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) landed on the Moon on January 19, 2024. Japan is…
Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 was the third Indian lunar exploration mission operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan programme. It included a lander called Vikram and a rover called Pragyan, similar…
Luna 13
Luna 13 was the third successful spacecraft to conduct a moon landing on 24th December 1966. Its weight is 113 kilograms and it carried multiple scientific instruments and an imaging…
Luna 9 – First successful Moon landing
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable (at 22 kilometres per hour) landing on a celestial body, and being launched from Earth, the Moon. The lander mass…
Chang’e 5 sample-return mission
Change 5 China's first lunar sample-return mission The Chang'e-5 mission was the most recent lunar sample-return mission conducted by humanity in four decades. The previous was the Soviet Union's Luna…
Apollo 12. Source: NASA
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 Landing Module Below is a Heritage Registration, in recognition of the US Congress "S.1694 - One Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act". See link. Source:…
Chang’e 4 – Yutu 2 Rover
China's Yutu 2 rover still going strong after 4 years on the moon's far side - See Article from China's Yutu 2 Rover Space.com Location - Chang'e 4 - Rover…