Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was NASA's first Surveyor lunar-landing mission. The Hughes-built Surveyor-A spacecraft reached Oceanus Procellarum on June 2, 1966, demonstrated radar-guided soft landing and surface operations, and returned more than eleven thousand images.
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- Aliases
- Surveyor ISurveyor-A mission1966-045A
- Name
- Surveyor 1
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Surveyor 1 was NASA's first Surveyor lunar-landing mission. The Hughes-built Surveyor-A spacecraft reached Oceanus Procellarum on June 2, 1966, demonstrated radar-guided soft landing and surface operations, and returned more than eleven thousand images.
- End Date
- 1967-01-07
- Outcome
- Successful first United States soft landing on the Moon and validation of the Surveyor landing system.
- Start Date
- 1966-05-30
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- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/surveyor-1/
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 15:48:48 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 30, 2026 at 20:38:11 UTC
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