Surveyor 1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:41:00

Monday May 30, 1966

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First American lander to soft-land on the Moon.

Surveyor 1

Wiki

Surveyor 1 was the first lunar soft-lander in the uncrewed Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, United States). This lunar soft-lander gathered data about the lunar surface that would be needed for the crewed Apollo Moon landings that began in 1969. The successful soft landing of Surveyor 1 on the Ocean of Storms was the first by an American space probe on any extraterrestrial body, occurring on the first attempt and just four months after the first Moon landing by the Soviet Union's Luna 9 probe.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

995 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D

Active 1965 to 1967


Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-36A

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

46 days 2 hours

Stats

Atlas-Centaur


8th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1966

1966


52nd

Orbital launch attempt