Surveyor 7, the last NASA Surveyor soft-lander, studied the lunar highlands near Tycho crater with imaging and a surface-sampler arm. Atlas SLV-3 Centaur from Cape Canaveral SLC-36A launched it on 7 January 1968; it landed successfully on 10 January.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 7 January 1968, 06:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1968-001
- Launches in 1968
- 1st of 128
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