Surveyor 1: the story
Surveyor 1 · Chapter 1 of 4
30 May 1966
Launch
Surveyor 1 left Earth on a Atlas-Centaur from Launch Complex 36A.
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Surveyor 1 · Chapter 2 of 4
2 June 1966
Arrival
Retro-rocket soft landing at Oceanus Procellarum.
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Surveyor 1 · Chapter 3 of 4
1966–1967
Life’s work
The first American spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. It proved the ground could hold a lander, three years before Apollo 11.
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Surveyor 1 · Chapter 4 of 4
7 January 1967
Last signal
Surveyor 1 survived the long lunar nights and answered Earth on and off for seven months before its final contact in January 1967.
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