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From: neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Impossible Space Goals
Summary: I, too, liked the Surveyor!
Message-ID: <6089@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 89 05:16:03 GMT
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In article <14475@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:

>The first real answers about Lunar composition (remember to forget Zond)
>came from Surveyor.  It did everything you could have asked -- it was a
>terrific program, my all time favorite until Viking.

How interesting....I too have always had a "soft spot" in my heart for the
Surveyor craft. They were really neat little probes, and looked very
much like what one would imagine a "space probe" (as opposed to a plain-old
earth-orbiting satellite) looked like.

BTW, what ever became of the pieces of a Surveyor that wer brought back by
some of the Apollo astronauts....one of the Apolllo landings just happened
to be about 300 meters from one of the Surveyors.

It might be interesting to have everyone post to the net which of the
unmanned probe missions is their favorite.....it could provide some
interesting discussions! Pioneer, Voyager, Viking, Surveyor, Mariner....which
is your personal favorite?



Neal