Race to the Moon · United States
Official target, as worded: No earlier than November 2026 (NASA Moon Base manager, 15 Sep 2026). Griffin Mission One ("Moon Base II") is a lander + rover mission in the CLPS / Moon Base programme by Astrobotic, a Voyager Technologies company (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
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Lander plus Astrolab’s FLIP rover for the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton, near the south pole, 10 payloads in all; the only lunar launch NASA expects in 2026. Falcon Heavy per Spaceflight Now. Voyager Technologies completed its acquisition of Astrobotic on 13 Jul 2026.
Sources differ: NASA’s own pages name the site differently: its Griffin-1 event page says "the Nobile Crater at the lunar South Pole"; its CLPS deliveries page says Mons Mouton. The two are neighbours, so we say "the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton".
Official target, as worded: No earlier than November 2026 (NASA Moon Base manager, 15 Sep 2026).
Griffin Mission One ("Moon Base II") is a lander + rover mission in the CLPS / Moon Base programme by Astrobotic, a Voyager Technologies company (NASA CLPS), counted under United States.
Scheduled. Lander plus Astrolab’s FLIP rover for the Nobile crater region near Mons Mouton, near the south pole, 10 payloads in all; the only lunar launch NASA expects in 2026.
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