Destination · Moon
Moon
Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Moon as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.
Ephemeris pending
Body record
What the catalog records about Moon
- Body type
- Moon
- Orbits
- Earth
- Position in the explorer
- Marked pending, never drawn
Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.
Derived figures
Missions to Moon
- Committed missions
- 131
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 125
- Recorded a success
- 56
- Success rate
- 45%
Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 6 of the 131 records are still active, leaving 125 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 1950s | |
| 1960s | |
| 1970s | |
| 1980s | |
| 1990s | |
| 2000s | |
| 2010s | |
| 2020s |
Who went
Agencies
A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 131.
What they did
Mission types
- Orbiter
- 51
- Lander
- 46
- Flyby
- 17
- Sample return
- 14
- Impactor
- 13
- Crewed
- 9
- Technology demonstrator
- 8
- Rover
- 7
- Heliophysics
- 3
- Atmospheric probe
- 1
- Observatory
- 1
- Other
- 1
A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.
How they ended
Outcomes
- Success
- 56
- Partial success
- 13
- Failure
- 56
- Active
- 6
Keep going
These records in the directory
The directory's Moon destination filter selects exactly the records counted above.
View all 131 Moon missions