Surveyor 6

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Surveyor 6 was a NASA unmanned lunar lander that successfully soft-landed on the Moon in 1967 and became the first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA space probe
spacecraft
unmanned lunar lander
communicationBand S-band
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
destination Moon NERFINISHED
epoch early lunar exploration era
followedBy Surveyor 7 NERFINISHED
hopAltitude about 3–4 meters
hopDistance about 2.5 meters
landingDate 1967-11-10
landingMethod retro-rocket soft landing
landingRegion central near side of the Moon
landingSite Sinus Medii NERFINISHED
lastContactDate 1967-12-14
launchDate 1967-11-07
launchSite Cape Kennedy LC-36B NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D NERFINISHED
lunarLatitude 0.49° N
lunarLongitude 1.40° W
manufacturer Hughes Aircraft Company NERFINISHED
massAtLaunch approximately 1000 kilograms
massOnLanding approximately 300 kilograms
missionDurationOnSurface about 17 days
missionObjective measure lunar surface mechanical properties
obtain close-up television images of the lunar surface
perform soft landing on the Moon
support Apollo program landing site selection
test spacecraft and landing technologies for future lunar missions
missionType lunar lander
notableAchievement first lunar surface hop maneuver by a spacecraft
first spacecraft to lift off from one part of the lunar surface and reposition itself to another
operator NASA
payload soil mechanics surface sampler
television camera
powerSource batteries
solar panels
precededBy Surveyor 5 NERFINISHED
program Surveyor program NERFINISHED
relatedProgram Apollo program NERFINISHED
seriesPosition fourth successful Surveyor lunar lander
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraftBus Surveyor lander bus
spacecraftType robotic lunar lander
status mission completed
targetBody Moon NERFINISHED
televisionImagesReturned over 30000 images

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