Ranger and Surveyor programs

[Winston]

Surveyor: The Spacecraft

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_98-1
SURVEYOR 1 - Mission Control Audio Reconstruction & Simulation

Surveyor 3 - Apollo 12

Surveyor Program Results

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/SurveyorProgramResultsNASA-SP-184.pdf
Ranger, Mariner and Surveyor Programs



Surveyor propulsive drop test at 3:00:

Surveyor 1 Landing on the Moon - CBS News Coverage - Thursday, June 2, 1966, 1:17:36 AM EST

 

[vcp]

A few months after Ranger 7, I saw a blurb in a magazine - probably 'Popular Mechanics', that you could order the book 'Ranger VII Photographs of the Moon', for $5 postage included from the Government Printing Office. A few weeks later I got a large format (11"x17") several hundred-page volume with all the photos on glossy pages. Still have it in a box somewhere. It's neet.

 

[user 13]

Excellent!

Watched 2 of the videos, great stuff.

Thanks

 

[NAR29996]

A few months after Ranger 7, I saw a blurb in a magazine - probably 'Popular Mechanics', that you could order the book 'Ranger VII Photographs of the Moon', for $5 postage included from the Government Printing Office. A few weeks later I got a large format (11"x17") several hundred-page volume with all the photos on glossy pages. Still have it in a box somewhere. It's neet.

I checked that book out of the library at SDSM&T. It was cool. There's a video floating around YouTube somewhere that animates the final moments of the flight.

 

[Winston]

There's a video floating around YouTube somewhere that animates the final moments of the flight.

The first video posted above uses it in sync with the authentic video of mission control. I think I posted the link to just the modern animation here somewhere, but that may have been years ago on the 50th anniversary of the Surveyor 1 landing. Here it is again:



Also, a previous thread of mine on the same subject:

https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/surveyor-landers.154729/
Plus these which I recently found and are fascinating. GREAT scans of the original reports, something which isn't common:

Surveyor Final Technical Report 32-1265 Volume I

https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/sites/d...veyorFinalTechnicalReport_32-1265_VolumeI.pdf
Surveyor Final Technical Report 32-1265 Volume II

https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/sites/d...yorFinalTechnicalReport_32-1265_Volume_II.pdf

 

[vcp]

Found it..