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... 1966 and 1968 by five robotic spacecraft, built by the Hughes Aircraft Corporation, and named Surveyor. This short, but critically important program consumed $426 million of NASA's budget in just ... stage, but also that of the robust and ingenious Surveyor probes. Mankind sent explorers to six different lunar locations but the Surveyors visited five entirely different landing sites, and returned over 87 ...

Image:Surveyor.jpg 200px Surveyor lunar landing spacecraft Category:Spacecraft

... Propulsion Laboratory JPL announced: "It is very difficult to predict if Surveyor's batteries will withstand the -260øF cold. If Surveyor survives, the engineers estimate it will be several days after sunrise ... , 6/15/66, A10).'' President Johnson's statement on SURVEYOR I 's successful soft-landing on the moon: "Overnight the eyes of SURVEYOR I have become the eyes of the world on ... . This moment of triumph for all who have participated in the Surveyor project has been well earned, for back of Surveyor's perfect performance on this fist flight are years of hard ...

... 's very good for that time. '''Cortright:''' On the Lunar Orbiter? '''Dinkel:''' On the Surveyor. '''Cortright:''' Sixty meters, Surveyor landed, three out of five. '''Dinkel:''' No, my mistake. Lunar Orbiter. '''Cortright:''' Lunar ... Hughes had all they could do to do the Surveyor. The Surveyor Orbiter was supposed to use a lot of the hardware from the Surveyor already developed for attitude control and maneuvering and ...

... 's why we're going there." SURVEYOR IV was fourth in series of seven spacecraft in NASA's Surveyor program: SURVEYOR I (launched May 30, 1966) and SURVEYOR III (launched April 17, 1967) both soft-landed successfully and transmitted photos to earth; SURVEYOR II (launched Sept. 20 ...

... the world. ''(NASA Release 67-241; NASA Proj Off)'' September 8-30: NASA's Surveyor V (Surveyor-E) unmanned spacecraft was successfully launched by Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle from Eastern Test Range ... to take television pictures of the lunar surface around its landing area. Surveyor V was the first of the Surveyor series to carry an instrument to study the chemical characteristics of the ...

... obtained useful data. ''(NASA Proj off)'' Surveyor VI briefing was held at NASA Hq. Dr. Leonard D. Jaffe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Surveyor Project Scientist, said Surveyor VI had discovered or confirmed that ... separated regions in the moon's equatorial belts," Surveyor Program Manager Benjamin Milwitzky asserted. To maximize the scientific value of the last Surveyor mission in the series, NASA had established a group ...

... moon." Efforts to reestablish communications with Surveyor V , which had soft-landed Sept. 10, for simultaneous communications with Surveyor VI, proved futile. On Nov. 17 Surveyor VI's vernier engines were fired for ... Surveyor VI was nearly flawless. SURVEYOR I (launched May 30,1966) , SURVEYOR III (launched April 17,1967) , and Surveyor V (launched Sept. 8,1967) had all soft-landed successfully and transmitted photos to earth. SURVEYOR ...

... Surveyor VII, final mission in NASA's Surveyor pro­gram to analyze lunar surface, was excellent. Surveyor I ''(launched May 30, 1966)'' , Surveyor III ''(launched April 17, 1967)'', Surveyor V ''(launched Sept. 8, 1967)'', and Surveyor ... ''(launched Sept. 20, 1966)'' had failed to softland because of an ignition failure. Communications with Surveyor IV ''(launched July 14, 1967)'' were lost seconds before spacecraft was scheduled to softland, and ...

... , and seven special dust-detection mirrors-was first in Surveyor series to carry both alpha-scattering instrument and surface sampler. Launch sequence for Surveyor VII was flawless, and spacecraft per­formed nominally ... of lunar surface, and provide basic scientific and engineering data in support of Project Apollo . Surveyor program was directed by OSSA Lunar and Planetary Programs Div.; project manage­ment was assigned ...

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