Back came new moon-surface pictures ... ordered a delicate midcourse maneuver to place Surveyor directly on target. It was then that the entire mission came close to disaster.

Moon landing attempts are becoming so frequent that the players involved — private companies and government agencies alike — ...

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.

Measurements from NASA's LADEE have mission determined the exosphere ... program which produced maps of the entire moon between 1966-67, and the Surveyor program which sent robotic landers to ...

In November 1996 when Surveyor was launched, there had been no completely successful mission to Mars in 20 years ... of Mars would resemble that of the moon," Malin said. "To see hundreds of ...

The Apollo 11 mission would follow this plan in ... proving NASA could land exactly where it wanted on the moon. Landing next to Surveyor 3 meant there would be no sharpshooter’s fallacy ...

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 ...

May 30: The unmanned American Surveyor 1 craft lands on the ... Apollo 8 completes the first manned orbit of the moon. Frank Borman commands the mission, Jim Lovell acts as navigator and William ...

Russia’s first lunar lander mission in 47 years ... States followed shortly after when its robotic Surveyor 1 spacecraft ...

NASA's Artemis program, initially designed to return astronauts to the moon, is facing mounting ... such as the Veritas mission to Venus and the NEO Surveyor telescope. Proponents of space ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...