OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION JET PROPULSION LABORATORY,
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE 354-5011
FOR RELEASE: After 11:00 A.M., PDT, Thursday, June 16, 1966. The
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Surveyor I
spacecraft made a perfect low-speed, three-point landing on the
moon on June 1, 1966, after a 63-hour, 36-minute flight from
Cape Kennedy. During the following 12 days and 10 hours, before
the sun set on Surveyor's landing site in the Ocean of Storms
last Tuesday, the sps survey television camera scanned for
transmission to Earth 10,338 high-resolution pictures of the
lunar surface. With its camera shut down for the duration of the
two-week-long lunar night, Surveyor is now periodiclly queried
concerning its condition--voltages, temperatures and battery
power capacity--by round-the-world stations of NASA's Deep Space
Network. In a few days, the spacecraft will go deeper into
"hibernation", conserving its stored e