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Surveyor 3's TV and telemetry systems were found to have been damaged by its unplanned landings and liftoffs. [2] Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean in November 1969, and remains the only probe visited by humans on another world. The Apollo 12 astronauts excised several components of Surveyor 3, including ...
Surveyor crater is a small crater in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. [1] On April 20, 1967, the Surveyor 3 spacecraft landed within the crater near the east rim. Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon.
Surveyor 3: USA: 20 April 1967: Soft landing. First lander visited by a later crewed mission that even brought its components. Surveyor 4: USA: 17 July 1967: Contact lost on descent. Surveyor 5: USA: 11 September 1967
Surveyor 3 camera brought back from the Moon by Apollo 12, on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Parts of Surveyor 3, which landed on the Moon in April 1967, were brought back to Earth by Apollo 12 in November 1969. [68] These samples were shown to have been exposed to lunar conditions. [69]
Surveyor 1: Lunar lander HEO: Success First American lander to soft-land on the Moon. 9 1966-09-20 12:32 Atlas-Centaur-D LV-3C AC-7 CCAFS LC-36A Surveyor 2: Lunar lander HEO: Success Spacecraft failed en route to the Moon. 10 1966-10-26 11:12 Atlas-Centaur-D LV-3C AC-9 CCAFS LC-36B Surveyor SD-4 Test flight vehicle HEO: Success
Surveyor 3: NASA: 20 April 1967 – 4 May 1967 lander success various studies, primarily in support of forthcoming human landings. First lander visited by a later crewed mission that even brought its components back to Earth. 1967-035A: Lunar Orbiter 4: NASA: May–October 1967 orbiter success lunar photographic survey 1967-041A: Explorer 35: NASA
Since the Apollo Program, there has been at least one independent investigation into the validity of the NASA claim. Leonard D. Jaffe, a Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that a member of his staff reported that a "breach of sterile procedure" took place at just the right time to produce a ...