Talk:Surveyor program

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I'm not sure a table is really appropriate here. I'd prefer to put each mission as a subheading, like:

[edit] Surveyor 1

  • Launched May 30, 1966; landed June 2, 1966
  • Weight at landing: 596 pounds (how about something metric?)

A total 11,237 images were transmitted to Earth.

The successful soft landing (first ever by the U.S. on an extraterrestrial body) was in the Ocean of Storms?. The spacecraft found a layer of about one inch of dust around itself.

[edit] Surveyor 2

  • bla bla

Thoughts? Comments? -- Brion 16:32 Sep 3, 2002 (PDT)

Seems reasonable, especially after I added that image. I just like tables is all, and there was a request for one, so I dove in. :) Bryan Derksen
Heh. :) That request was made before all the text descriptions made their way in, though. I'll change 'it... --Brion
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[edit] Stable version now

Let's begin the discussion per the protocol. What say you? --Ancheta Wis 05:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The protocol 'does not exist yet. For any action to be taken under a proposal, it first has to achieve consensus support, which judging from the current discussions it certainly has not done. WP:CONSENSUS, WP:PROT, WP:5P all individually (never mind collectively) trump a still-under-discussion-but-largely-rejected proposal. Cynical 20:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
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