Surveyor II Loses Communication

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 13:11 in Astronomy & Space

The Surveyor II spacecraft, which was to soft-land on the moon tonight, lost communications with Earth tracking stations at 2:35 a.m. PDT today--45 hours and three minutes after it was launched from Cape Kennedy.

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