Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
14:41:00
Monday May 30, 1966
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
First American lander to soft-land on the Moon.
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
8th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1966
52nd
Orbital launch attempt