On 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Like its six predecessors, ...

With the objective of landing human beings on the moon, NASA worked on various issues through the 1960s. The decade saw spectacular progress being made as we understood our natural satellite better ...

Of the seven automated Surveyor spacecraft launched to the moon between May 1966 and January 1968, only the last, Surveyor 7, aimed for a target selected specifically for its scientific value.

Last week we talked about humankind’s first attempts to land (crash) a spacecraft on the moon, in honor of the successful launch of the Israeli moon lander Beresheet. The Ranger series of spacecraft ...

When astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean stepped out of the Apollo 12 lunar module in November 1969, they were within walking distance of Surveyor 3, an unmanned U.S. spacecraft that had landed in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This 1:24 scale model of the Surveyor ...