Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Surveyor 3
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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,026.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection
Location
SLC-36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1967
38th orbital launch attempt
Atlas-Centaur
11th mission
1st mission of 1967
6th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission