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FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATE

JUNE 8, 1966
RELEASE NO: 66-146

SURVEYOR I's
FIRST PICTURES
OF LUNAR SURFACE

The attached photos are a selection of the first in a

series of several thousand televised to Earth by the Surveyor
I spacecraft after it made a soft landing on the Moon at 2:17
a.m. EDT, June 2, 1966.

Surveyor I, the first engineering test spacecraft in

a series of seven flight missions, was launched from Cape
Kennedy, Fla., by an Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle May 30,
1966.

The Surveyor Program is under the direction of NASA's

Office of Space Science and Applications. Project management
is by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology.

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Surveyor I-1
PASADENA, CALIF.-- Shown on the reverse side is the first
picture of the Moon's surface transmitted to Earth by the
Surveyor I at 2:52 a.m., EDT, June 2, 1966, showing a
number of parts of the spacecraft. Easily identified are one
of the three landing legs, its footpad, an omnidirectional
antenna boom and, at lower right, the top of a helium container.
Surveyor I touched down on the Moon 35 minutes earlier - at
2:17 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time. For this picture exposure
was set for the spacecraft itself so that the lunar surface does
not show up well. Surveyor is a program of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration.
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Surveyor I-5

PASADENA, CALIF.--Shown on the reverse side is the Moonscape

taken by television camera aboard Surveyor I spacecraft.
White object in lower right corner is an omnidirectional
antenna. Mounted on the antenna is a test target for the
television system. Beyond the antenna, the view stretches to
the lunar horizon, a mile or more away, where a raised area
shows. Small pieces of rock are scattered across the sur-
face. Several small craters appear at left. The two vertical
streaks are transmission defects. Surveyor I landed on the
Moon at 2:17 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, June 1, 1966. This
600-scan-line TV photo was taken during the first five hours
after touchdown. Surveyor is a program of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration.
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Photo No: 66-H-590

PASADENA, CALIF.--Photograph from United States' Surveyor I,

reverse side, shows landing foot-pad (#2) resting on the lunar
surface. Dark area just above foot is depression caused by
pressure of the foot as it landed on the Moon. Picture was
made by a 6 00-scan-line TV camera positioned about six feet
from the area photographed. Bright spots at left are re-
flections of the Sun. Dark rings in lower right are reflec-
tions of the vidicon as seen in the camera mirror. Surveyor
is a program of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration.
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Surveyor I-l1

PASADENA, CALIF.--The Surveyor I itself fills most of the

frame in this photo, reverse side, transmitted from the

spacecraft. Black-and-white circular object at top is con-

tainer which supplies helium gas for pressurizing liquid fuel

Vernier rocket engines. Spherical object at lower left is

nitrogen tank which stores gas for attitude control. At

lower right is Surveyor's auxiliary battery cantilevered on

struts from the frame. Surveyor is a program of the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Surveyor I-6

PASADENA, CALIF.--Photo of lunar surface, reverse Side, was

taken by Surveyor I on June 2, 1966, within a few hours after

the spacecraft soft-landed near the Moon's equator. A large

rock appears at right. A number of small rocks are scattered

about a small crater in upper center of photo. Horizon

appears in the extreme upper left. Bright spots at left of
crater are reflections of the Sun in the TV camera system.
This 600-scan-line picture was one of 144 TV photos taken by
Surveyor I during its first day of operation on the Moon.
Surveyor is a program of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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Surveyor I-12

PASADENA, CALIF.--Shown on the reverse side is a composite of

two narrow angle (six degree field of view) pictures taken by

Surveyor I showing a Moon rock about six inches high by 18

inches long. Width of top frame is 30 inches at the center,

bottom frame 18 inches. Distance from Surveyor I's television

camera to center of the large rock is about 12 feet. Regularly-

spaced black dots in both frames are reticle marks arranged on

the face of the TV vidicon tube to indicate for calibration

purposes. Diagonal shadow at bottom right was made by one of

Surveyor's electronics compartments. Bright rock above sha-

dow is about an inch high by three inches in length. Rock

fragments at left of large rock range in size from several

inches to one-eighth inch in diameter. The Sun is shining from

behind the spacecraft toward top of frames. These 600-scan-

line frames were transmitted to Earth on June 3, 1966, during

Surveyor I's second day of operation on the lunar surface. The
television camera is capable of scanning pictures at 600 lines
per frame or 200 lines per frame and has two fields of view--
wide angle, 25 degrees and narrow angle, six degrees. Surveyor I
landed gently on the Moon's Ocean of Storms at 2:17 a.m.,
Eastern Daylight Time, June 2, 1966. Surveyor is a program of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Photo No: 66-H-399

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Shown on the reverse side is an illustration

of the Surveyor television camera which took several thousand

pictures of the lunar surface since the soft landing of the

Surveyor I spacecraft on the Moon at 2:17 a.m. EDT, June 2,

1966. The camera was conceived and designed to travel un--

harmed from the Earth to the Moon and then transmit pictures

back to Earth following a soft lunar landing. Its photos

relayed to Earth basic scientific and engineering data on the

Moon's environment and the condition of the Surveyor's landing

gear and other spacecraft components. The Surveyor program is

under the direction of NASA's Office of Space Science and

Applications with project management by the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology.

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400 MARYLAND AVENUE, S.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546

Photo No: 66-H-471

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Shown on the reverse side is a photograph

of a full-size model of the Surveyor spacecraft similar to

the actual Surveyor I which made a soft landing on the Moon

at 11:17 p.m. (PDT), June 1, 1966, after a flight of 63

hours, 46 minutes and 37 seconds from launch at Cape Kennedy

to touchdown on the lunar surface. Surveyor I was launched

with an Atlas-Centaur May 30. Within 15 minutes after touch-

down, the spacecraft's television camera began transmitting

to Earth photographs of the lunar surface. Several of this

first series are attached.

The Surveyor I, which returned several thousand4s of pictures

of the Moon's surface and much other scientific data, is one in

a series of seven spacecraft being developed under the direction

of NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications, under the

project management of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the

California Institute of Technology.

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Photo No: 66-H-672

CAPE KENNEDY, FLA.--Shown on the reverse side is an Atlas-

Centaur launch vehicle which launched the National Aeronmutics
and Space Administration's Surveyor A spacecraft on its way
to the Moon at 9:41 a.m. EST, May 31, 1966,from Complex 36A,
Cape Kennedy, Fla. The launch was the first engineering test
flight in a series of Surveyor missions resigned to achieve
a soft landing on the Moon.