Surveyor 1 casts a long shadow across the Moon's Ocean of Storms as it nears the end of its first day on the lunar surface. It was the first American spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon. It was launched on May 30, 1966, and landed three days later. It transmitted several thousand pictures of the lunar surface. [Credit: NASA]
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