Starship HLS

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Starship HLS (Human Landing System) is a lunar lander variant of the Starship spacecraft that is slated to transfer astronauts from a lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and back. It is being designed and built by SpaceX under the Human Landing System contract to NASA as a critical element of NASA's Artemis program to land a crew of astronauts on the Moon. The mission plan calls for a Super Heavy booster to launch a Starship HLS into Earth orbit, where it will be refueled by multiple Starship tanker spacecraft before performing a rendezvous and docking with the crewed Orion spacecraft that will be launched from Earth by a NASA Space Launch System (SLS) launcher. HLS will then perform a TLI burn. A crew of two (or more) astronauts will transfer from Orion to HLS, which will then descend to the lunar surface for a stay of approximately seven days, including four planned moonwalks. It will then return the crew to Orion in NRHO. In the third phase of its HLS procurement process, NASA awarded...

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