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Posted on May 2, 2018

Surveyor 3 was now to their right, 300 feet away, gleaming in the morning sunlight. Antennas and sensors still reached upward from its tubular frame, just as they had on April 20, 1967, when the spacecraft thumped onto the moon amid blasts from its braking rockets.

P3-Al, Surv, LM AS12-48-7135

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P1-Aproaching Surveyor AS12-48-7088