Surveyor 1, NASA’s first lunar soft lander, launched on an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A and soft-landed on Oceanus Procellarum on 2 June 1966—the first U.S. soft landing on another body—returning over 11,000 surface images for Apollo site characterization.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 986 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1966, 14:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1966-045
- Launches in 1966
- 52nd of 131
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