Re: far side of the Moon photo mission (ussr's)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 21:04

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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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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: far side of the Moon photo mission (ussr's)
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