Surveyor 2
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Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon. After launch on September 20, 1966, a mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecra
Surveyor model on Earth
Launch of Surveyor 2 on an Atlas-Centaur (AC-7)
Surveyor 3
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Surveyor 3 is the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967 and the second to successfully land. It was the first mission to carry a surfac
Surveyor 2
…Soviet mission, Cosmos 111, was launched on March 1, 1966, but failed to reach a proper lunar trajectory, re-entering Earth's atmosphere two days later. Surveyor 3 soft-landed on April 20, 1967, at the Mare Cognitum portion of the Oceanus Procellarum. It transmitted a total of 6,315 television images to the Earth…
Surveyor 3 on the Moon, photographed by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean over two years after it landed
Panorama of the mare surface
Angular blocks, up to 7 feet (2 meters) in diameter, which form part of a strewn field of blocks that surround a sharp-rim crater 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter
Similar view but with different lighting