Fifty years of moon dust—Surveyor 1 was a Pathfinder for Apollo
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 06:51
in Astronomy & Space
Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots. When President John Kennedy set a goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface in 1961, little was known of that world, beyond what could be gleaned from observations by telescopes.