NASA had landed the Surveyor 3 unmanned craft in 1967, and the location had several advantages for an Apollo 12 landing site. It was clearly an area where a spacecraft could safely land ...

I recently saw Apollo 13 again — this time with the ... The plan was to land close — but not too close — to the Surveyor 3 probe. They were 600 feet away when they landed, although the ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan Bean touched down close enough to Surveyor 3, which had been sitting in the Ocean of Storms for more than two years, to walk over and remove ...

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical ... Wrapped in silver thermal blanketing, the 12-foot-long (3.7-meter-long) angular structure was subjected ...