Upcoming Matinee Bingo on Saturday September 8

Celebrate Surveyor 5's 40th birthday with a matinee bingo



We could not have had the Apollo moon landings later in the sixties and seventies if science and reconnaissance were not performed by unmanned space craft cabable of landing on the moon. Neil Armstrong may have stolen the show with his " a small step for man, a giant leep for mankind" but lets not forget those unsung Surveyor space craft, in particular Surveyor 5 which was launched September 8, 1967. Our bingo celebrates Surveyor 5's 40th birthday. It sits on the moon now having accomplished its mission largely ignored and forgotton (much like modern surveyors today).

Come on out and celebrate Surveyor 5's Birthday by working the Saturday, September 8 , Matinee Bingo starting at 1:00 pm and going to 5:00 pm. We will need more people in the first half of the bingo than the second half.


The following is from the NSSDC website: "Surveyor 5 was the third spacecraft in the Surveyor series to achieve a successful lunar soft landing and the first mission to obtain on-site compositional data on the Moon. The primary objectives of the Surveyor program, a series of seven robotic lunar softlanding flights, were to support the coming crewed Apollo landings by: (1) developing and validating the technology for landing softly on the Moon; (2) providing data on the compatibility of the Apollo design with conditions encountered on the lunar surface; and (3) adding to the scientific knowledge of the Moon. The specific objectives for this mission were to perform a soft landing on the Moon in Mare Tranquillitatis and obtain postlanding television pictures of the lunar surface. The secondary objectives were to conduct a vernier engine erosion experiment, determine the relative abundances of the chemical elements in the lunar soil by operation of the alpha-scattering instrument, obtain touchdown dynamics data, and obtain thermal and radar reflectivity data. "