DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar lander
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Date
Start:
Duration: 3 months, 9 days (launch to last contact)
Mission Ending
Last Contact: December 17, 1967 (1967-12-18)
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D
Kind: NASA
Manufacturer: Hughes Aircraft
Mass: 1,006 kilograms (2,218 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: 1°25′N 23°11′E / 1.41°N 23.18°E / 1.41, 23.18(Mare Tranquillitatis)
Date: September 11, 1967, 00:46:44 UTC
Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth.
