Surveyor 1

-2.450° -43.210° · Flamsteed P

First fully successful US soft landing.

Trajectory

Direct ascent on an Atlas-Centaur, with vernier-engine course corrections during the 64-hour cruise. The final-approach retrorocket burn decelerated Surveyor 1 from 2.6 km/s to 4 m/s touchdown velocity, the first fully-successful U.S. lunar soft landing.

Source: NASA / JPL

Details

Operator: NASA/JPL
Country: United States
Era: pre-apollo
Duration: 1.4 days