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This series will explore historic space missions from the start of the Space Age to the present day, including both crewed and robotic missions. Here we will investigate the scientific rationale ...

is image LO3-154-H was taken by Lunar Orbiter III on 20 February 1967 and shows the landing site for both Surveyor III (landed 20 April 1967) and Apollo 12 (landed 19 November 1969). Figure 1 shows ...

On April 17, 1967, Surveyor 3 launched for the Moon. The second of NASA’s Surveyor spacecraft to soft land on the lunar surface, Surveyor 3 was commissioned with studying the Moon in preparation for ...

This image LO3-154-H was taken by Lunar Orbiter III on 20 February 1967 and shows the landing site for both Surveyor III (landed 20 April 1967) and Apollo 12 (landed 19 November 1969). Figure 1 shows ...

“We’re smoking right down there…” cooed astronaut Pete Conrad, Commander of the Apollo 12 mission, fifty years ago today (November 19, 1969). Conrad's lunar module (LEM) descended from a stable orbit ...

Click to open image viewer. This 1:24 scale model of the Surveyor lunar soft-lander accurately depicts the five spacecraft successfully landed by NASA on the Moon during the period from May 30, 1966 ...