June 2, 1966
Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and was the first US lunar lander.
Surveyor 1 was launched on May 30, 1966 and landed on the moon on June 2, 1966, It has been sitting on the moon ever since.
The Surveyor 1 was the first U.S.A. spacecraft to perform a controlled landing on the moon on March 30,1966. It took 11,100 pictures (film not digital) over a six week mission. It was not a manned mission.
The Surveyor 5 spacecraft landed on the Moon on September 10, 1967. It was part of the American Surveyor program that prepared for the Apollo manned missions to the Moon.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed in 1966
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The first lunar lander launched by the US was the Surveyor 1, which landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. Its primary mission was to assess the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon in preparation for the Apollo missions.
It was the unmanned spacecraft called Surveyor 1 in 1966.
Surveyor 1, it was a soft lander built for NASA that would collect surface data for the Apollo Program. It landed on June 2, 1966.
It was the surveyor spacecraft.
The USA Space Shuttle is not capable of going to the moon. No robotic or manned moon craft was named Explorer. The first successful USA moon lander was called Ranger 7 and it touched down on the moon on July 28, 1964. The earlier Pioneer series of moon landers all failed to reach the moon and land. So did the first 6 Ranger craft. The USA Surveyor series of robotic spacecraft first touched down on the moon on May 30, 1966. In total, 7 Surveyor robotic spacecraft were launched toward the moon. Two failed and five were successful.
The goal of the Surveyor missions was to soft-land spacecrafts on the Moon to gather information about its surface in preparation for the Apollo program, which aimed to land astronauts on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. The Apollo missions sought to demonstrate American technological and scientific prowess in the context of the Cold War space race.