The Surveyor program was started in 1960 as a support mission to the Apollo program for the purpose of aiding in the design of the Lunar Excursion Module LEM and program operations. The Surveyor program had three priorities: (1) to accomplish successful soft landings on the moon as demonstrated by operations of the spacecraft subsequent to landing; (2) to provide basic data in support of the Apollo program; and (3) to perform lunar operations designed to contribute new scientific knowledge about the moon and to provide further information in support of the Apollo program. This was the United States space program’s first attempt to land a vehicle on another celestial body.
The program began with the spacecraft outfitted with many instruments such as microscopes, soil sample collector, chemical analyzer, and four television cameras, one on approach and three distributed around the spacecraft to allow for stereoscopic imagery. The payload was estimated at 2,500 lb. The launch vehicle...
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Journal Articles
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Conference Papers
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Rennilson, J.J. (2014). Surveyor Imagery. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_19-1
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