Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP) is a NASA program that uses robotic spacecraft to prepare for future crewed missions to the Moon. The program gathers...

conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), as the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, LRO was the first...

numerous robotic spacecraft and instruments to the lunar surface. Several precursor robotic missions are being coordinated through the Commercial Lunar Payload...

Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years....

launched October 2008, completed Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP) LCROSS, launched June 2009, completed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched...

Stage secondary booster, and the Altair lunar lander. The Orion spacecraft was designed for the Constellation program as a crew compartment for use in low...

High-Resolution Camera (HIRES) Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Lunar Crater Observation...

Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE), is an infrared radiometer aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, part of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program...

the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was temporarily managed under the Discovery Program from the termination of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program until...

related projects such as Project Gemini and the robotic Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar Orbiter programs are included. NASA's official cost breakdown, as...

September 24, 2022. Atkinson, David and Lavoie, Anthony (2012) The Lunar Precursor Robotic Program AIAA Brinton, Turner (August 16, 2010). "U.S. Air Force Launches...

history to pursue programs in aeronautics research, robotic spaceflight, technology development, and human space exploration programs. NASA's budget for...

human spaceflight, completing six lunar landings from 1969 to 1972 during the United States' Apollo Program. Several robotic landers have reached the surface...

A lunar rover or Moon rover is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of the Moon. The Apollo program's Lunar Roving Vehicle was...

lunar programs were a series of programs pursued by the Soviet Union to land humans on the Moon, in competition with the United States Apollo program...

Science Laboratory – Robotic mission that deployed the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 Mars Pathfinder – Mission including first robotic rover to operate...

The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA's Lunar Orbiter program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was...

NASA to terminate the Planetary Observer program, with just Mars Observer funded. Mars Observer was a robotic spacecraft designed to study the geoscience...

into safe-mode on January 30, 2020. The concept of a Great Observatory program was first proposed in the 1979 NRC report "A Strategy for Space Astronomy...

partners. It will serve as the staging point for both robotic and crewed exploration of the lunar south pole and is the proposed staging point for NASA's...

before Surveyor. The U.S.-crewed Apollo Lunar Modules (1969–1972) with rovers (1971–1972) and late Soviet large robotic landers (1969–), Lunokhods (1970–1973)...

best known for pioneering the "faster, better, cheaper" approach to space programs. The only person to hold the post twice is James C. Fletcher, who returned...

The Explorers Program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations...

The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary...

taken by a human, previous ones were taken robotically and in black-and-white by the Lunar Orbiter program robotic probes, taking in 1966 the first ever image...

Atlas launches carried the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS mission as part of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, which was later intentionally...

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15...

by European Space Agency to Develop Robotic Arm Prototype for Argonaut Lunar Lander to Support International Lunar Exploration". Redwire Space. 22 May...

is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The program encompasses lunar orbiters, landers, rovers...

beyond the Earth. Sent by the Soviet Union it was part of the robotic rovers Lunokhod program. The Luna 17 spacecraft carried Lunokhod 1 to the Moon in 1970...