April 17
Posted in White History on Apr 17th, 2011
1967 NASA launched the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, the third lander of the Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. It landed 3 days later at the Mare Cognitum portion of the Oceanus Procellarum and transmitted a total of 6,315 TV images to the Earth. 1964 American aviation pioneer Jerrie Mock became the [...]