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The Sixties · Space

06/02/66 Surveyor I Lands on Moon

06/02/66 Surveyor I Lands on Moon
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06/02/66 Surveyor I Lands on Moon

June 2 1966 - Surveyor I Lands on the Moon

On June 2, 1966, Surveyor 1 became the first American craft to land on the moon. It sent back the first high quality pictures of the moon's surface.

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