Surveyor 1, launched May 30, 1966, was the first successful lunar landing of NASA's Surveyor program. (The Soviets had achieved a soft-landing with Luna 9 in February but that probe only transmitted three days.) Surveyor 1 landed on June 3 and transmitted data until January 6, 1967 with interruptions during two-week lunar nights.
It carried only television cameras and no scientific instrumentation. Surveyor 1 sent back over 10,000 pictures before its batteries ran down.
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