Surveyor 5
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Surveyor 5 is the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were
Surveyor model on Earth.
Lunar Orbiter 5 image centered on the landing site. Width is 17.2 km.
Centaur AC-13 launching Surveyor 5
Wide-angle picture of the northwest wall of the Surveyor 5 crater
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 5
…days. Less than two years later the first crewed landing, Apollo 11, would land 25 km south-southwest of Surveyor 5. Surveyor 5 was launched on the Atlas-Centaur rocket on September 8, 1967 from Cape Canaveral. The TV camera consisted of a vidicon tube, 25 and 100 mm focal length lenses, shutters, clear, red…
An Atlas-Centaur launching Surveyor 1 (1966)
A Centaur stage during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962
Diagram of a Centaur stage
Technicians readying booster 104D for erection