Surveyor 5, NASA’s fifth lunar soft-lander, which touched down in Mare Tranquillitatis and became the first spacecraft to perform an in-situ chemical analysis of lunar soil. Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D from Cape Canaveral LC-36B launched it on 8 September 1967 despite a helium pressurant leak that nearly aborted the landing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 1967, 07:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1967-084
- Launches in 1967
- 93rd of 139
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