Surveyor 1 Stories

The several hundred Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) employees gathered in the cafeteria were just settling down after remotely watching the first Titan-Centaur (TC-1) lift off into the blue Florida sky when a voice on the public address system…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Surveyor I spacecraft made a perfect low-speed, three-point landing on the moon on June 1, 1966, after a 63-hour, 36-minute flight from Cape Kennedy.