Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: far side of the Moon photo mission (ussr's)
Message-ID: <1989Mar29.210418.4272@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5347@lynx.UUCP> <11024@lanl.gov> <47974@philabs.Philips.Com> <1452@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 21:04:18 GMT

In article <1452@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> mink@cfa.harvard.EDU (Doug Mink) writes:
>*Surveyor 4      Apr. 17, 1967  Soft-landed on moon; returned photos and soil data

Check your data, please, Surveyor 4 was a failure if I'm not mistaken.
Its transmitter went dead in mid-flight.  It conceivably may have made a
successful landing, since landing was completely automatic, but it returned
no data of any kind.
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