Surveyor 1 to 7
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The NASA Surveyor program is a series of seven lunar landers intended to study the surface of the Moon up close from 1966 to 1968. Their findings would later prove to be critical to the eventual success of the Apollo program of landing a man on the moon before the decade of the 60s is out. Five landers successfully touched down and relayed data back to Earth, of which one of them (Surveyor 3), is the only spacecraft ever visited by humans (Apollo 12) on an extraterrestrial surface to this day.
| Surveyor Program (1966-1968) |
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| Mission | Landing Site | Start | End | ||
| Surveyor 1 | Flamstead Ring Crater | 1966-May-30 | 1967-Jan-7 | ||
| 2nd successful lunar landing after Luna 9 in 1966-Feb-3 | |||||
| Surveyor 2 | Copernicus Crater | 1966-Sept-20 | 1966-Sept-23 | ||
| Mission failure, crashed onto the surface | |||||
| Surveyor 3 | Surveyor Crater | 1967-Apr-17 | 1967-May-3 | ||
| Later visited by the crew of Apollo 12 in 1969-Nov-20 | |||||
| Surveyor 4 | Sinus Medii | 1967-Jul-14 | 1967-Jul-17 | ||
| Mission failure, crashed onto the surface | |||||
| Surveyor 5 | Sea of Tranquility | 1967-Sept-8 | 1967-Dec-17 | ||
| Landed just 25 km away from Apollo 11's landing site | |||||
| Surveyor 6 | Sinus Medii | 1967-Nov-7 | 1967-Dec-14 | ||
| Landed near the crash site of Surveyor 4, and performed the first liftoff from the Moon | |||||
| Surveyor 7 | Tycho Crater | 1968-Jan-7 | 1968-Feb-21 | ||
| Planned to be visited by the cancelled Apollo 20 mission | |||||
Surveyor 3 photographed on the Moon on the Apollo 12 mission
Surveyor 3 and astronaut Pete Conrad on the Moon during Apollo 12, November 1969.
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