LRO Provides Flashback to 1966

Written by Nancy Atkinson
On June 2, 1966 the Surveyor 1 spacecraft soft landed on the Moon, the first US spacecraft to set down on another body. Now, 43 years later the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has spotted this historic spacecraft, sitting silently on the Moon’s surface. (...)Read the rest of LRO Provides Flashback to 1966 [...]

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