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I'm not sure a table is really appropriate here. I'd prefer to put each mission as a subheading, like:
A total 11,237 images were transmitted to Earth.
The successful soft landing (first ever by the U.S. on an extraterrestrial body) was in the Ocean of Storms?. The spacecraft found a layer of about one inch of dust around itself.
Thoughts? Comments? -- Brion 16:32 Sep 3, 2002 (PDT)
Let's begin the discussion per the protocol. What say you? -- Ancheta Wis 05:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
All of the pages for the specific Surveyor missions have the "generic" image in their infoboxes. Since the generic picture isn't the actual probe being discussed, shouldn't we look for a proper image, or just leave that part empty? ( DrZarkov 03:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC))
Check out this quote from Chapter 1 of "Destination Moon":
In the wake of early Soviet space achievements the American space program became enveloped in far-reaching political competition with the Soviet Union. In this atmosphere, the United States counted heavily on the Ranger and Surveyor programs, pioneering endeavors in the application of new technology, to achieve an urgently needed "first" in space.
Given that (and numerous other easily findable and verifiable sources), should some mention be made of the Soviet program that paralleled Surveyor? Sdsds 06:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian ( talk) 17:49, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Surveyor Program → Surveyor program – Like the other programs in the category and related categories, this should be lower case. As MOS:CAPS says, we treat as proper only those things that are consistently capitalized in sources, and Surveyor program is very often lowercase in books. See n-grams in sentence context and altogether including titles and headings. Dicklyon ( talk) 02:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
"the world's first controlled landing on the Moon (the Luna 9 probe, which landed several months earlier, had used inflatable airbags to bounce to a stop on the Lunar surface"
Luna 9 was "controlled" by any definition of the term. Luna landed at 6 m/s, compared to 3 m/s for Surveyor. Luna used air bags to soak up remaining momentum, Surveyor used landing pads and shock absorbers. This statement is nothing more than playing with the terminology to claim a "first". It's misleading and should be removed. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 12:40, 2 February 2015 (UTC)