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 ...

The unmanned probe will achieve lunar orbit -- the first object to do so -- and send information about the moon back to earth. May 30: The unmanned American Surveyor 1 craft lands on the moon and ...

That first human-made hole in the Moon was followed four months later by Surveyor 3, one of a series of American probes designed to find suitable locations for landing the planned Apollo missions.

The United States followed shortly after when its robotic Surveyor 1 spacecraft touched down on the moon’s surface just four ...

and probe the planet's interior through its gravity and magnetism. Surveyor never attracted the concentrated burst of global acclaim bestowed in 1997 on its charismatic (but scientifically much ...

Unknown Speaker: “Surveyor 6 was launched from the moon about ten feet off the surface. The spacecraft landed again eight feet from its original position. The spacecraft’s rocket engines were ...

The Skull Nebula is located in the constellation Cetus, which means "The Whale." "This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, ...

Japan also landed on the moon early this year, with its SLIM spacecraft demonstrating a precision landing thanks to smart algorithms making the most of limited resources, said Masaki Fujimoto of JAXA.