Surveyor 1 was a NASA robotic spacecraft that became the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, touching down on June 2, 1966, just months after the Soviet Union Luna 9 became the first spacecraft of any nation to do so. It was the first of NASA Surveyor program of robotic lunar landers, sent to test landing technology and survey candidate landing sites ahead of the crewed Apollo missions, and it transmitted thousands of images of the lunar surface during its operating life.
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Surveyor 1 was a NASA/JPL mission, the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon (1966).
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Additional Source Wikipedia - Surveyor 1Wikipedia: Surveyor 1, lead section
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Surveyor 1 transmitted 11,237 still photos of the lunar surface to the EarthView the Source 2. Wikipedia - Surveyor 1
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Lunar lander
- In Group: Surveyor Program Lunar Landers, lead sentence: first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of NASA
Part Of: Surveyor Program, Lead paragraph, part-of
Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States).
Mission Of: Surveyor Program, Lead paragraph, mission-of
Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States).
- Operated By: NASA, Wikipedia: Surveyor 1, lead section
View the Source3. Wikidata: Surveyor 1
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