Surveyor 3

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 17 Apr 1967, 07:05 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas Centaur D (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Lunar Exploration

Orbit: Lunar Impactor

Pad: Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Lunar probe which successfully landed on the surface on April 20. It transmitted 6,300 photos and was visited by the crew of Apollo 12 which returned parts to Earth.