NASA Shares List Of Lunar Locations Where SpaceX’s Might Land Humans In Historic First

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NASA has shared a list of potential locations for the first human lunar landing since the Apollo era. NASA, along with SpaceX, will fly to the Moon on the Artemis III mission using its Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) lander. The mission, slated to take place sometime in 2026, barring potential delays to the Orion or SpaceX’s Starship, will be the first human presence on the lunar South Pole in history.

According to the agency, it has identified nine potential Artemis III locations and a landing on any of them will be the first time a human has set foot. The regions are on the lunar South Pole, and NASA added that it has worked with industry partners to make the selection.

NASA Unveils Landing Sites For History’s First Human Landing On Moon’s South Pole

NASA’s plan to land the first humans on the Moon since the Apollo program and the first on the South Pole in history relies on three distinct launch and landing vehicles. The astronauts will leave Earth on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft.  They will rendezvous with SpaceX’s Starship HLS, a customized variant of the upper stage Starship, and then land on the Moon.

The return journey will be on Orion, with Starship using the Raptor engines to lift off from the lunar surface and then transfer the crew to NASA’s ship. SpaceX is currently testing the full Starship stack in…