Kloman, Erasmus H.
Surveyor Project documents collection, 1966-1971.
The collection consists of documents pertaining to the later stages of development and aftermath of the Surveyor project. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, and manuscript drafts. The latter half of the collection is a rough draft of a management study conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) of the Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter projects.
Surveyor was initially conceived as an ambitious long-range science-oriented program of discovery and exploration on the Moon, but in 1964 it was curtailed into an exclusively Apollo-support project. Surveyor's goal was to soft land spacecraft mounted with sensing devices on the surface of the moon. Surveyor 1 was launched on May 30, 1966, and made the first U.S. soft landing on the Moon on June 1, 1966. From May 1966 to January 1968, seven Surveyor spacecraft were launched, with five of them successfully landing on the Moon.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Surveyor Program (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moon
Correspondence. aat
Manuscripts. aat
Memorandums. aat
Notes. aat
Surveyor Program (U.S.)
Craven, Charles W.
Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913-
Goldfine, M. T.
Hall, R. Cargill
Luedecke, Alvin R.
McGarrity, James W.
Neiswanger, Gordon
Paine, Thomas O., 1921-1992
Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004
Petrone, Rocco A.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hughes Aircraft Company
National Academy of Public Administration
AIP-ICOS
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archives. JPL Archive, MS 111-113, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA