Surveyor 3

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

07:05:00

Monday April 17, 1967

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Surveyor 3

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Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. It was the first mission to carry a surface-soil sampling scoop. It was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts and remains the only probe visited by humans on another world. They brought back some parts of it to study, including its TV camera.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

1,026 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-LV3C Centaur-D

Active 1965 to 1967


Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-36B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

50 days 6 hours

Stats

Atlas-Centaur


11th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1967

1967


38th

Orbital launch attempt