Surveyor 3, Card No 22 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)

The Race Into Space (Brooke Bond, 1971)

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Card No. 22: Surveyor 3

17 April 1967

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Launched from Cape Kennedy on April 17, 1967, Surveyor 3 made a successful soft-landing on the Moon after a 65 hour flight.

Its task was to develop soft-landing techniques and to provide scientific and engineering information in support of the Apollo manned Moon-landings.

Surveyor 3 was fitted with a mechanical sampler, and was commanded to dig a number of trenches in the soil to assess its texture, while a TV camera on the space-craft viewed the operation.

On Nov. 20, 1969, Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean.