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Surveyor 4 was the fourth lunar lander in the surveyor program that explored the moon....
Surveyor 5 was the fifth lunar lander of the surveyor program that explored the moon....
Surveyor 6 was the sixth lunar lander of the surveyor program that explored the moon....
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 Surveyor program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Surveyor Program comprised unmanned spaceflights to the Moon, with soft landings, without returning (although Surveyor 6 became the first spacecraft to lift off the moon).
This was done in preparation for the Apollo Program.
The Surveyor Shovel was a project to determine the composition of the Moon's surface.
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 Apollo Program - MSN Encarta
Following the Apollo program, Apollo spacecraft were used to shuttle astronauts to and from the Skylab space station, and an Apollo spacecraft docked with the orbiting Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
It was preceded by the manned Gemini program, which engineers used to develop the techniques that would be needed for the ambitious trip to the Moon, and the unmanned Surveyor Program, which scientists used to probe the lunar surface.
During the Apollo program, 12 Saturn V rockets were launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and all were successful.
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 Surveyor program at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The lunar Surveyor Program was initiated and carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landing on the Moon.
Surveyor 2 - Launched September 20, 1966; landed September 23, 1966
Surveyor 6 - Launched November 7, 1967; landed November 10, 1967
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 Surveyor, licensed surveyor, surveyor service
The Surveyor probes were the first US spacecraft to land safely on the Moon surveyor.
County surveyor powers and duties: (1) It shall be the duty of thecounty surveyor to make or cause to be made all surveys within his or her.
A Surveyor General for New South Wales was appointed at the foundation of the...
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 Surveyor Program Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Mars Surveyor
Designed to accomplish at less cost the mission assigned to the failed Mars Observer.
The Mars Climate Orbiter was the second flight of the Mars Surveyor Program.
The probe was to enter a 160 km x 38600 km polar orbit around Mars on September 23,1999, and use aerobraking to reach a 373 km x 437 km x 92.9 degree sun-synchronous mapping orbit by November 23 1999.
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