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| | Surveyor 1 Mission |
 | | In addition to proving a variety of new equipment and spacecraft design and validating the technique for landing on the Moon, Surveyor 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to land softly on the Moon, returned a large quantity of scientific data during its first two days of operation on the lunar surface. |
 | | Surveyor 1 completed its primary mission on July 14, 1966, after transmitting, in addition to the television pictures, data on the bearing strength, temperatures, and radar reflectivity of the Moon. |
 | | All Surveyor landing sites, except for the last one, were selected primarily because they were being considered as Apollo landing sites. |
| www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/surveyor/Surveyor1.html (192 words) |
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