Labels:text | screenshot | circle OCR: RECONNAISSANCE FOR APOLLO IN 1961, US President John To find out if spacecraft could land safely Kennedy announced that an on the Moon's surface and take off again, American would land on the Moon robot probes were dispatched. In total, before the decade had ended. 13 Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar However, little was known MARE FRIGORIS Orbiter probes traveled to about the lunar surface, the Moon, gathering and no American MARE IMBRIUM the vital information MARE CRISIUM had even orbited needed to land the the Earth. COPERNICUS Apollo craft there. A PLACE TO LAND KEY: Maps and surveys MARE RANGER were needed to assess potential landing sites NECTARIS SURVEYOR for the Apollo craft. KENNEDY'S O TYCHO SPEECH SEE THE RANGER THE LUNAR THE SURVEYOR NEXT ALSO SERIES ORBITER PROBES SERIES
