Ziņojums no diskusijas Surveyor landings (was Re: QUESTIONS: Apollo, Earth, Moon)

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From: he...@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Surveyor landings (was Re: QUESTIONS: Apollo, Earth, Moon)
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 20:59:11 GMT
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In article <1992Nov2.114513.2...@mdcbbs.com> riv...@mdcbbs.com (Michael Rivero) writes:
>... still later, portions of one of the landers (#2, I think) were
>returned to earth by the crew of Apollo 12.

Surveyor 3 was the one that Apollo 12 collected souvenirs from. :-)
Surveyor 2 wasn't suitable for this purpose, having crashed after a
failure in one of its vernier engines sent it tumbling out of control
during retrofire.

The other failure of the 7-mission program, incidentally, was Surveyor 4.
It abruptly went silent, quite mysteriously, shortly before landing.  If
this was a transmitter failure and not something more fundamental, it may
actually have landed safely.
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