It was 54 years ago today that Surveyor 7, the last of the NASA Surveyor Program missions landed on the Moon. NASA launched seven Surveyor spacecraft, five of which completed successful missions.
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And they were all made by low bidders.
Very. ?ÿVery. ?ÿCool.
Perhaps it was only Surveyors 2 and 5 were made by the low bidders. Those were the two that crashed.
Coolest of all - Apollo 12 made a pinpoint landing within walking distance of Surveyor 3.
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From 9 minutes onward - best tv ever....
Long ago I worked for a small little government intelligence mapping group.?ÿ My first office space there was in what had been the locker room for the photo lab.?ÿ The DoD never saw a point in updating the place so picture 20 analysts working in a open room (they did remove the center lockers) with pitched tile floors and lockers for walls.?ÿ These lockers where chock full of unclassified or de-classified imagery and documents.?ÿ Some of these lockers contained large quantities photos of the moon's surface.?ÿ One of the old timers told us that they the agencies predecessor had actually done the topographic mapping of the moon's surface for NASA.?ÿ Kind of cool.
On a side note, we also found recon photos from the Cuban missel crises and old silk maps of Europe and the South Pacific.
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Hey @MathTeacher, just looked at the USRA data.?ÿ The imagery was for those maps.?ÿ Pity they were just stuffed into old gym lockers.
