DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Failure
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Date
Start:
Duration: 45 hours 3 min. to last contact, 62 hours 46 min. to failed soft landing
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D
Kind: NASA
Manufacturer: Hughes Aircraft
Mass: 995.2 kilograms (2,194 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-36A
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the uncrewed American Surveyor program to explore the Moon. It was launched September 20, 1966 from Cape Kennedy, Florida aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. A mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, September 22.
