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Cancelled missions to the Moon

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Lunar Gateway
planned lunar international space station
dearMoon project
cancelled SpaceX lunar tourism mission
LK
lunar lander developed for the Soviet lunar program
Altair
planned lunar lander component of NASA's cancelled Project Constellation
VIPER
lunar rover
Lunar-A
LUNAR-A was a cancelled Japanese spacecraft project that was originally scheduled to be launched in 1995, then delayed to August 2004. After many delays (primarily due to potential thruster faults), the project was eventually cancelled in January 2007. It was planned to be launched on a Japanese M-V rocket from the Kagoshima Space Center.
Beresheet 2
planned Israeli/UAE lunar mission
International Lunar Network
proposed set of robotic sensing stations on the Moon
SELENE-2
SELENE-2 , or the Selenological and Engineering Explorer 2, is a cancelled Japanese robotic mission to the Moon that would have included an orbiter, a lander and a rover. It was intended as a successor to the 2007 SELENE (Kaguya) lunar orbiter.
Planetary Observer program
cancelled NASA space exploration program
MoonRise
MoonRise was a robotic mission concept to the south pole of the Moon. It was proposed in 2010 and 2017 for NASA's New Frontiers program mission 3 and 4, respectively, but it was not selected. If funded and launched by another NASA opportunity, it would focus on the giant South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA basin) on the far side of the Moon between the Moon's South Pole and Aitken Crater, 16° south of the Moon's equator. This basin measures nearly in diameter and in depth. This region is the oldest and deepest observable impact basin on the Moon and provides a window into the deep crust of the Moon a
LEO
proposed German Moon mission