Surveyor 3, a NASA uncrewed lunar soft-lander launched on Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B; it landed in Mare Cognitum, returned thousands of TV images, and was later visited by Apollo 12 astronauts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 1967, 07:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1967-035
- Launches in 1967
- 38th of 139
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