Surveyor 5 landed on Mare Tranquillitatis in 1967 (near the Apollo 11 landing).
It had a TV camera that transmitted 19,049 images.
A magnet on one of its feet detected magnetic materials in the lunar soil.
It was made by Hughes Aircraft, owned by Howard Hughes.
The total cost for the 7 Surveyor spacecraft was $469 million - wow!
Time 20:10.
Distance 248,201 miles.
Waxing crescent phase.
220 degrees SW compass point.
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