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Surveyor 1

1957–1969: Opening the Space Age

Surveyor 1

First U.S. soft lunar landing.

Era 1 of 6 · full record in the catalog

Launch
30 May 1966
Lead / partner
United States
Target
Moon
Category
Lunar lander
Status
Success
Vehicle
Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D AC-10
Mass
unknown
Orbit / trajectory
unknown
Duration
7 months, 8 days (launch to last contact)

Why it happened

Surveyor 1 flew during 1957–1969: Opening the Space Age, as part of United States's work toward moon. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.

The mission

The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: First U.S. soft lunar landing.

Results

First U.S. soft lunar landing.

Related missions

Surveyor 1 Luna 10 — same_target Luna 10 Luna 9 — same_target Luna 9 Lunar Orbiter 5 — same_target Lunar Orbiter… Ranger 7 — same_target Ranger 7

Luna 9

Success

Soviet Union · 1966

Sources & image credits

  • Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-22)
  • Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
  • Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog