1968 Event U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho 1968 Event Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon 1968 Event Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon 1967 Event U.S. launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9 1967 Event U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material 1967 Event Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 1967 Event Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing 1967 Event U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 1966 Event Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon 1966 Event U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 1966 Event U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing 1966 Event U.S. launches Surveyor 1 to Moon 1923 Birthday Oliver Millar, Surveyor, Queen's Pictures 1913 Birthday Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor 1731 Birthday Benjamin Banneker, Ellicott, Maryland, black mathematician/surveyor, Washington D.C.
