Surveyor 5 Lunar Lander Spacecraft
Surveyor 5 was NASA’s lunar lander that performed the first soil analysis on the Moon or any other world. Launched in 1967, it returned 20,018 photographs and alpha-scattering measurements indicating a basaltic lunar surface before contact was lost in December 1967.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Surveyor-ESurveyor VSurveyor 5 lunar landerSurveyor 5 spacecraft
- Family Name
- Surveyor 5
- Full Name
- Surveyor 5 Lunar Lander Spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probelandertechnology_demonstratorresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Surveyor 5 was NASA’s lunar lander that performed the first soil analysis on the Moon or any other world. Launched in 1967, it returned 20,018 photographs and alpha-scattering measurements indicating a basaltic lunar surface before contact was lost in December 1967.
- First Flight Year
- 1,967
- Last Flight Year
- 1,967
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/surveyor-5/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 07:13:19 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 11:57:53 UTC