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Surveyor 1

Also known as Surveyor I, Surveyor-A, Surveyor1

NASA · Launched

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Completed · Success

The first spacecraft launched in the Surveyor program and the first soft landing on the Moon by the United States, demonstrating the technology needed to land and operate on the lunar surface.

Destinations
Moon
Launch vehicle
Atlas-Centaur
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, United States
Countries
United States
Mission types
Lander

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Surveyor 1 launched

    Earth

  2. Landing

    Surveyor 1 landed in Oceanus Procellarum

    Moon

  3. Mission end

    Surveyor 1 mission terminated after 11,240 pictures

    Earth

  4. Milestone

    Engineering interrogations of Surveyor 1 concluded

    Earth

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Surveyor 1 · Lander

    Destinations: Moon

Trajectory record

Trajectory dataset not yet available

No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.

Provenance

Sources

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Data verified through August 24, 2026