{"id":14574,"date":"2018-06-02T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/us-soft-lands-on-moon-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:16:00","slug":"us-soft-lands-on-moon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/us-soft-lands-on-moon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soft Lands on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1616\" title=\"Surveyor NASA Lunar Lander\" alt=\"Surveyor NASA Lunar Lander\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/f0de7__250px-Surveyor_NASA_lunar_lander.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"278\" \/>June 2, 1966<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s lunar lander <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surveyor_1\" target=\"_blank\">Surveyor 1<\/a> lands in Oceanus Procellarum (\u201cOcean of Storms\u201d) on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft-land on an extraterrestrial body. The previous Ranger program sent craft that had hard-landings (i.e. crash landings). However, the Soviet spacecraft, <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2011\/02\/03\/first-soft-landing-on-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luna 9<\/a>, claims the honor of being the first to soft-land on the moon, almost exactly 4 months prior to Surveyor 1.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/06\/02\/us-soft-lands-on-moon\/\">US Soft Lands on Moon<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/06\/02\/us-soft-lands-on-moon\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 1966 NASA&#8217;s lunar lander Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum (\u201cOcean of Storms\u201d) on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft-land on an extraterrestrial body. The previous Ranger program sent craft that had hard-landings (i.e. crash landings). However, the Soviet spacecraft, Luna 9, claims the honor of being the first to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3175,874,1137],"class_list":["post-14574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-lands","tag-moon","tag-soft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}