Lunar lander
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Lunar lander or Moon lander may refer to:
- Apollo Lunar ModuleApollo Lunar ModuleThe Apollo Lunar Module was the lander portion of the Apollo spacecraft built for the US Apollo program by Grumman to carry a crew of two from lunar orbit to the surface and back...
, used for the 1969-1972 human spaceflight program of the United States - LK LanderLK LanderThe LK was a Soviet lunar lander and counterpart of the American Lunar Module . The LK was to have landed up to two cosmonauts on the Moon...
, designed for the human spaceflight program of the Soviet Union - Altair (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft previously known as the Lunar Surface Access Module
- Luna programmeLuna programmeThe Luna programme , occasionally called Lunik or Lunnik, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. Fifteen were successful, each designed as either an orbiter or lander, and accomplished many firsts in space exploration...
, lander spacecraft used by the Soviet Union for robotic exploration of the Moon - NASA Robotic Lunar Lander, current NASA program for developing a new generation of small, autonomous lunar landers
- Surveyor ProgramSurveyor programThe Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon...
, lander spacecraft used the United States for robotic exploration of the Moon - Project MorpheusProject MorpheusProject Morpheus is a vertical test bed vehicle developed by NASA. The lander is large enough to carry 1,100 pounds of cargo to the moon. The project is an outgrowth of Project M, a NASA initiative to land a humanoid robot on the lunar surface in 1000 days. Morpheus is the second of four risk...
, a NASA research and development program whose test bed may evolve into a 21st Century lunar lander
Other
- Lunar Lander (arcade game)Lunar Lander (arcade game)Lunar Lander is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, which uses a vector monitor to display vector graphics. Although not particularly successful, a vector-graphics generator was the impetus of Atari's most successful coin-operated game: Asteroids. The object of the game is to pilot a...
, an 1979 arcade game by Atari which uses a vector monitor - Lunar Lander (video game), the name of several video games starting in 1969
- Moonlander (musical instrument), a biheaded electric guitar designed by Yuri Landman
See also
- List of man-made objects on the Moon, a list of objects that have landed or crashed on the Moon