In one of the images, a sleek, white version of Starship's Human Landing System (HLS) docks nose-to-nose with Orion in orbit around the moon. During this part of the mission, NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts would transfer from Orion into HLS.

NASA wants a lunar habitat on the surface of the moon in less than ten years. NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the space agency's Artemis program, announcing plans to assign demonstration missions for the two vehicles it has picked to land astronauts on the moon.