BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SpaceOdysseyHub//Lunar Mission Tracker//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Lunar Missions — SpaceOdysseyHub X-WR-CALDESC:Past + upcoming lunar missions tracked by spaceodysseyhub.com/moon. BEGIN:VEVENT UID:moon-artemis-ii@spaceodysseyhub.com DTSTAMP:20260528T150640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402 SUMMARY:Artemis II (NASA / ESA / CSA) DESCRIPTION:Artemis II is the first crewed flight of the Artemis program and the first time humans will travel beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The roughly 10-day flight will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wi seman\, Victor Glover\, Christina Koch\, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a free-return trajectory around the far side of the Moon\, reaching ap proximately 7\,400 km beyond the lunar surface before returning to Earth. The flight will validate Orion's life-support\, navigation\, and deep-sp ace communications systems with crew on board\, building on the uncrewed Artemis I mission that flew in late 2022. Beyond the engineering verifica tion\, Artemis II is the first integrated test of NASA's deep-space crew operations infrastructure since the Apollo era\, including the new Missio n Control Building \n\nMore: https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/artemis -ii URL:https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/artemis-ii LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T000000Z STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:moon-chandrayaan-3@spaceodysseyhub.com DTSTAMP:20260528T150640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230714 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230715 SUMMARY:Chandrayaan-3 (ISRO) DESCRIPTION:Chandrayaan-3 made India the fourth country in history to sof t-land a spacecraft on the Moon and the first ever to land near the lunar South Pole. Launched on 14 July 2023 from Sriharikota on ISRO's heavy-li ft LVM3\, the mission was a focused redesign following the loss of Chandr ayaan-2's Vikram lander in 2019. The new architecture removed the orbiter (Chandrayaan-2's orbiter is still operating and provided communications relay)\, strengthened landing legs\, expanded propellant margins\, and ad ded vision-based hazard detection. After a propellant-efficient lunar tra nsfer\, Vikram touched down at 69.37°S 32.32°E on 23 August 2023\, just 5 95 km from the lunar south pole — a region of immense scientific and stra tegic interest because of suspected water ice in permanently shadowed cra ters. The 26 kg\n\nMore: https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/chandrayaan -3 URL:https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/chandrayaan-3 LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T000000Z STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:moon-capstone@spaceodysseyhub.com DTSTAMP:20260528T150640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220628 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220629 SUMMARY:CAPSTONE (NASA) DESCRIPTION:CAPSTONE — the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technol ogy Operations and Navigation Experiment — is a 12U CubeSat owned by Adva nced Space (Colorado) and built by Tyvak that became the first spacecraft to enter the same near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) that NASA's future Lunar Gateway will use. Launched on a Rocket Lab Electron from New Zealan d in June 2022\, CAPSTONE used a low-energy ballistic transfer that took roughly four months to reach the Moon\, conserving propellant. After NRHO insertion in November 2022\, CAPSTONE has demonstrated peer-to-peer navi gation with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter — proving that future Gat eway and lunar surface assets can navigate using each other rather than r elying solely on Earth-based Deep Space Network tracking. The mission is small ($30M)\n\nMore: https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/capstone URL:https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/capstone LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T000000Z STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:moon-lunar-trailblazer@spaceodysseyhub.com DTSTAMP:20260528T150640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250227 SUMMARY:Lunar Trailblazer (NASA) DESCRIPTION:Lunar Trailblazer was a low-cost\, small-satellite NASA missi on designed to make detailed maps of water and other volatiles on the lun ar surface from orbit\, complementing the surface measurements being made by CLPS landers and rovers. Selected through NASA's competitive SIMPLEx program with a $94M cost cap\, the 200-kg spacecraft was built by Lockhee d Martin and Caltech and carried two science instruments: HVM3\, a high-r esolution near-infrared spectrometer to detect water ice and hydroxyl\, a nd LTM\, a thermal emission imager. Lunar Trailblazer launched on 26 Febr uary 2025 as a rideshare on the SpaceX Falcon 9 that delivered Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lander to lunar transfer orbit. Within hours of separation \, however\, the mission lost two-way communication with Earth and was un able to perform i\n\nMore: https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/lunar-tra ilblazer URL:https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/lunar-trailblazer LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T000000Z STATUS:CANCELLED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:moon-apollo-11@spaceodysseyhub.com DTSTAMP:20260528T150640Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690716 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690717 SUMMARY:Apollo 11 (NASA) DESCRIPTION:Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that fulfilled President John F . Kennedy's 1961 challenge to land a man on the Moon and return him safel y to the Earth before the decade was out. Launched on 16 July 1969 from K ennedy Space Center pad 39A on a Saturn V rocket\, Commander Neil Armstro ng\, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins\, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz A ldrin completed a translunar coast and entered lunar orbit on 19 July. On 20 July 1969 at 20:17 UTC\, the Lunar Module Eagle touched down in the S ea of Tranquility with less than 25 seconds of descent fuel remaining fol lowing Armstrong's manual flight past the original boulder-strewn landing site. At 02:56 UTC on 21 July Armstrong became the first human to set fo ot on another world\, followed about 20 minutes later by Aldrin. The pair spent 21 hour\n\nMore: https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/apollo-11 URL:https://spaceodysseyhub.com/missions/apollo-11 LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T000000Z STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR