SURVEYOR 1—launched on May 30, 1966. Set of 8 black-and-whit - Lot 92

SURVEYOR 1—launched on May 30, 1966. Set of 8 black-and-white photos, 20 x 25 cm: . - 1 color photo (20 x 25) of Surveyor - 1 black-and-white JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) drawing (22 x 28 cm) of Surveyor 1 on card stock with captions. -1 black-and-white photo, 20 x 25 cm, of a Surveyor vernier rocket being assembled, with a caption from the “Hughes Aircraft Company” on the back. The Hughes Aircraft Company (Los Angeles) was the manufacturer of the Surveyor probes - 1 artist’s rendering of Surveyor 1 (by Carlos Lopez) on the Moon, with a “Hughes Aircraft Company” caption on the back. The image is captioned and numbered 0665-S41787. -1 black-and-white double photo of a “moon landing” test on Earth of a Surveyor prototype. Vintage NASA black-and-white print (20 cm x 25 cm) captioned on the back, bearing the number 66-H-775. -1 photograph of the Surveyor’s shadow, taken by the spacecraft itself—a vintage NASA black-and-white print (20 cm x 25 cm) captioned on the back and numbered 66-H-832. -The lunar horizon photographed by Surveyor 1 on June 2, 1966. Vintage black-and-white JPL print (20 cm x 25 cm) captioned on the back, unnumbered. -1 close-up of a Surveyor landing leg on the Moon. Vintage black-and-white print from KSC (Kennedy Space Center) (20 cm x 25 cm), captioned on the back and numbered 113-KSC-66P-266. SURVEYOR PROGRAM - The program consisted of 7 Surveyor probes (May 30, 1966, to February 20, 1968). Surveyor 1 was the first American probe to land on the Moon. In total, 5 Surveyor probes landed on the Moon and transmitted some 86,326 images and data from our satellite (Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6, 7). However, Surveyor 2 and 4 crashed on the Moon.