Friday, June 02, 2006

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Knowledge

"The first step to knowledge is to know that you are ignorant."

- Mckenzie.

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Surveyor 1
Surveyor 1 was the first lunar lander in the American Surveyor program that explored the Moon. The program was managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, utilizing spacecraft designed and built by Hughes Aircraft.

Launched May 30, 1966; landed June 2, 1966
Weight on landing: 596 lb (270 kg)
A total 11,237 images were transmitted to Earth.

The successful soft landing (first ever by the U.S. on an extraterrestrial body) was in the Ocean of Storms.

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