Thursday, September 20, 2018

Surveyor 2 launched 1966


Surveyor 2, the second unmanned lunar lander in NASA's Surveyor program, was launched September 20, 1966. It was designed to achieve a soft landing on the moon and send back pictures, but a mid-course correction failure resulted in the probe crashing onto the lunar surface at about 6000 miles per hour on September 23.  That is probably why there aren't any videos of its launch.

Of the seven Surveyor probes, five were successful in landing on the moon.

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