Key facts
- Mission type
- Lunar lander
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1967-084A
- Satcat number span no
- 02937
- Mission duration
- 3 months, 9 days (launch to last contact)
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft
- Launch mass
- 1,006 kilograms (2,218 lb)
- Landing mass
- 303 kilograms (668 lb)
- Launch date
- September 8, 1967, 07:57:01 ( 1967-09-08UTC07:57:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D AC-13
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-36B
- Last contact
- December 17, 1967 ( 1967-12-18 )
- Landing date
- September 11, 1967, 00:46:44 UTC
- Landing site
- 1°25′N 23°11′E / 1.41°N 23.18°E / 1.41; 23.18 , ( Mare Tranquillitatis )
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Encyclopedic overview
Surveyor 5 is the fifth lunar lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967. A total of 19,118 images were transmitted to Earth.
Mission
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Surveyor 5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.