News, World Spaceflight
Description
Product Description
. The historic Surveyor program, which successfully soft-landed five American spacecraft on the lunar surface from 1966 to 1968,
...
paved the way for the Apollo manned landings. Surveyor achieved an impressive list of engineering and scientific firsts, and beamed back thousands of detailed television pictures. Unfortunately, you won't find much about the program, or be able to view many of its amazing photographs, on the Web. The major document on this CD-ROM is our exclusive reproduction of the "final report" prepared by NASA at the conclusion of the program, Surveyor Program Results, which has hundreds of the downlinked TV images. Areas covered include landing sites, spacecraft operations, principal scientific results, television observations, mechanical properties, soil mechanics surface sampler, temperature and thermal characteristics, surface electromagnetic properties, chemical analysis, lunar theory and processes, post-touchdown tracking data analysis, and more. In addition, we have an image gallery of Surveyor photographs and overviews of the flights. As another title in the World Spaceflight News "American Space Encyclopedia" CD-ROM series, it is truly an authoritative source for spaceflight enthusiasts!
The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, NT, Apple Macintosh, and other operating systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
From the Publisher
World Spaceflight News has covered spaceflight and the Space Shuttle program since 1983. In addition to our flagship publication, we produce printed and electronic Special Reports and NASA videos. Our "American Space Encyclopedia" CD-ROM series provides exclusive coverage of many spaceflight topics.
Read more