Moon Landing Mission 2024. A us spacecraft meant to be the first american lunar lander to visit the moon in half a century is instead on a collision course with earth. Astrobotic's first peregrine lander, which the company called peregrine mission one, launched on january 8 aboard united launch alliance's first vulcan rocket.

Japan’s space exploration agency (jaxa) has ended operations of the smart lander for investigating moon (slim) that it landed on earth’s. If all goes as planned, odysseus, a private spacecraft, will touch down on the lunar surface on thursday.