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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Date
Start:
Duration: 16 days (launch to last contact)
Mission Ending
Last Contact: May 3, 1967 (1967-05-04)
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D
Kind: NASA
Manufacturer: Hughes Aircraft
Mass: 1,026 kilograms (2,262 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-36B
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
Place: Lunar
Region: 3°00′58″S 23°25′04″W / 3.01612°S 23.41791°W / -3.01612, -23.41791
Date: April 20, 1967, 00:04:53 UTC
Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon in 1967. It was the first mission to carry a surface-soil sampling-scoop. Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean in November, 1969, and remains the only probe visited by humans on another world. They brought back some parts of it to study, including its TV camera.
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