Feeder line: sounding rocket or balloon (not FO)¶
5 payloads on 3 missions in the records so far had a flight of this kind before the Moon.
Peregrine Mission One¶
Astrobotic (now Voyager Lunar Systems) · Peregrine · failed to land
IM-1¶
Intuitive Machines · Nova-C Odysseus · landed
Blue Ghost Mission 1¶
Firefly Aerospace · Blue Ghost · landed