Labels:text | screenshot | outdoor OCR: SPACE EXPLORATION LUNAR LANDINGS OVERVIEW FIRST ORBIT TOUCHDOWN QUEST MOON RESEARCH LUNAR LANDINGS NEW FRONTIERS SHUTTLE MISSIONS Surveyor 1, a robotic spacecraft for moon landings FIRST ORBIT In 1966 NASA landed Surveyor 1 on the moon. It sent back data showing that the lunar surface was smooth enough for the landing of a manned spacecraft. In 1967 NASA began the Apollo project, and in 1968 astronauts Broman, Lovell, and Anders orbited the moon in Apollo 8. CHRONOLOGY NEWSFLASH ..