Before Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man” on the moon in 1969, there was an 11-foot drop by a lunar probe three years earlier. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Surveyor 1 probe landing ...

Fifty years ago this week, the first American spacecraft land on the Moon. Surveyor 1 launched aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket on May 30, 1966, just three days before touching down on the moon where it ...

Mosaic of surface images taken by Surveyor 1, pasted onto the inside of a hollow sphere to preserve the view geometry of the camera. Regolith soil and rocks are clearly visible. Today marks the 50 th ...

On June 2, 1966, the United States reached a key milestone in its moon program — soft-landing a robotic craft on the lunar surface. The Surveyor 1 spacecraft (and the program as a whole) was key to ...

Surveyor 1 successfully landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966, approximately 63 hours post-launch. The spacecraft, weighing 2,200 pounds (998 kilograms), landed within a 100-kilometer crater north of ...

Space travel can still be dramatic in 2016, but it's a cakewalk compared to half a century ago. Today marks 50 years since the unmanned Surveyor I probe lifted off from Cape Canaveral, and when it ...

Launched on May 30, 1966, Surveyor 1 landed on the moon on June 2, 1966. This successful soft landing was the first for an American space vehicle. It occurred four months after the Soviet Union’s Luna ...

A relic of the 1960s Space Race may be paying Earth a brief visit with NASA announcing that a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 robotic Moon lander mission is suspected to have returned from ...