News America’s First Lunar Surveyor: 50 Years Later

[NukeET]

For more details, see here:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-138

 

[Unstung]

JPL usually writes stories to accompany their videos and provide more information, like this.

 

[N_Molson]

It was a rather simple though very reliable program. Using a solid braking booster for a short, precise high-G burn was quite bold, but it worked perfectly. Also the dawn of a long success-story for Atlas-Centaur program.

 

[dman]

It was a rather simple though very reliable program. Using a solid braking booster for a short, precise high-G burn was quite bold, but it worked perfectly. Also the dawn of a long success-story for Atlas-Centaur program.

On SURVEYOR 4 the solid fuel retro rocket exploded destroying the spacecraft......