Ad mirable scientific achievements but, for scientific drama, the most exciting accomplishment of Surveyor 5 last week was making it to the moon at all. The spacecraft’s 65-hour trip began well.

The United States landed its first spacecraft on the Moon on 2 June 1966. The Surveyor 1 spacecraft landed in the Ocean of Storms and began transmitting a series of photographs of the Moon’s ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

Moon missions have historically been dominated ... made eight touchdowns with its Luna programme; NASA landed five Surveyor probes and six crewed Apollo craft. A USSR poster which says: "Our ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...