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Fifty years ago this week - on June 2, 1966 to be exact - NASA's Surveyor 1 spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon, making history as NASA's first soft-landing on the lunar surface. (The then-USSR achieved the feat earlier that year in February 1966.) Surveyor 1 took more than 11,000 photos of the moon, but more importantly proved that NASA's soft-landing technique and spacecraft designs were sound. The mission set the stage for the first manned lunar landing by Apollo 11 just three years