Sunday, January 7, 2018

Surveyor 7 launched 1968


Surveyor 7, launched January 7, 1968 (just 50 years ago today!), was the seventh lunar lander and fifth to achieve a soft landing on the moon of the Surveyor program.

It landed on January 10 and transmitted data through January 26.  Operations resumed on the next lunar day, February 12-26, when communications with the spacecraft were lost.

NASA planned to visit Surveyor 7 during the Apollo 20 mission but budget cuts prevented that from happening.

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