Soft landings on the Moon

Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, and the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, all of whom were on their second and final spaceflight.

Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by ISRO. The mission consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover, as replacements for the equivalents on Chandrayaan-2, which had crashed on landing in 2019.

Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command and service module.

second crewed Moon landing

third Moon landing and eighth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

fourth Moon landing and ninth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

fifth Moon landing and tenth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

lander in the Soviet Union's Luna programme

lander used in the Apollo program

Chinese lunar lander

Chinese lunar lander

lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration

space probe

last sovietic space probe

Soviet spacecraft that landed on the Moon and deployed the Lunokhod 2 lunar rover

third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon

space probe

US unmanned lunar lander

space probe

lunar lander developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

American lunar lander

Chinese uncrewed lunar expedition

American lunar lander

NASA lunar lander

Soviet lunar lander

space probe

American private spacecraft which landed on the Moon in 2025

IM-1 was a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Intuitive Machines (IM) in February 2024 using a Nova-C lunar lander. After contact with the lunar surface on February 22 the lander tipped to an unplanned 30 degree angle. All instrument payloads remained functional and the mission was deemed a success. IM-1 was the first commercial mission to successfully soft-land on the Moon. NASA provided funding support for the mission through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The lander, named Odysseus, carried six NASA-developed payloads and several others from commercial and educational

IM-2 was a lunar mission run by Intuitive Machines as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. It was launched on 27 February 2025, at 00:16:30UTC. The Nova-C lunar lander, named Athena, reached the surface of the Moon on 6 March 2025, at 17:28:50UTC. Contact was temporarily lost during the landing process; when it was re-established, it indicated that the spacecraft was not in the correct orientation and one of the two radio antennas was not operating. The sideways orientation prevented the spacecraft from generating sufficient power. By 7 March, Athenas power had been

spacecraft intended to land on the surface of the Moon

lunar module used during Apollo 11; first crewed spacecraft on the Moon

lunar landing site of Vikram

IM-3 is an upcoming lunar mission planned for the second half 2026 by Intuitive Machines for NASA's CLPS program, using a Nova-C lunar lander.

European Space Agency lunar lander