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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 would be needed for the crewed Apollo Moon landings that began in 1969. The successful soft landing of Surveyor 1 on the Ocean of Storms was the first by an American space probe on any extraterrestrial body, occurring four months after the first soft Moon landing by the Soviet Union's Luna 9 probe.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 30, 1966 at 02:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Surveyor 1
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2185
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 2, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 2, 1966
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Lunar.
- Final status
- Decayed