Surveyor 1
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Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This lunar soft-lander gathered data about the lunar surface that woul
Surveyor model on Earth
Lunar surface centered on the landing site, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966. View is 7 km wide.
Launch of the Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying the Surveyor 1 space probe
Surveyor 1 photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009
Atlas-Centaur
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The Atlas-Centaur was a United States expendable launch vehicle derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile. The vehicle featured a Centaur upper stage, the first such stage to use high-performance liquid
Surveyor 1
…Aircraft Launch mass 995.2 kilograms (2,194 lb) Landing mass 292 kilograms (644 lb) Start of mission Launch date May 30, 1966, 14:41:01 UTC Rocket Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D AC-10 Launch site Cape Canaveral LC-36A End of mission Last contact 7 January 1967 Lunar lander Landing date June 2, 1966, 06:17:36 UTC Landing site…
A Centaur stage during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962
Diagram of a Centaur stage
Technicians readying booster 104D for erection