Surveyor 2 was to be the second lunar lander in the unmanned American Surveyor program to explore the Moon.
It was launched September 20, 1966 from Cape Kennedy, Florida aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket. A mid-course correction failure resulted in the spacecraft losing control. Contact was lost with the spacecraft at 9:35 UTC, September 22.
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