The pioneering robotic lunar programs of the Cold War: the Soviet Luna series, which made the first lunar flyby, impact and soft landing, and the American Surveyor landers that prepared for Apollo. A program belongs here when its cited article names the Luna or Surveyor series. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
All Early American and Soviet Robotic Lunar Programs
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Luna Program (Wikipedia)
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The Luna programme (from the Russian word Луна "Luna" meaning "Moon"), sometimes called Lunik by western media, was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976.
The Surveyor Program (NASA)
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The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon.
Wikipedia, Zond Program
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a precursor to remote-controlled robotic circumlunar loop flights
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