At this site, students will learn about the tools used for past, present and future exploration and about the Surveyor spacecraft, five of which landed on the Moon between 1966 and 1968. The Surveyor 3 television camera is on display at the National Air and Space Museum and can be seen in this virtual tour. Also on display are an Apollo 13 rock box used to carry samples back from the moon. This exhibit covers Earth-based telescopes through interplanetary probes and links to many more tools of exploration that are on display throughout the museum. Information is available about airborne and orbital telescopes along with probes and fly-by spacecraft. Information about specific orbiters includes Mariners, Vikings, Mars Global Surveyor, Galileo, and Magellan, and the information about landers includes the Surveyors, Vikings, Venera, and the Mars pathfinder. The section on rovers has information about Lunokhod (Russian robot rovers on the moon), Apollo manned moon rovers, Sojourner on Mars, and planetary rovers under development. A section called Sample Return features samples returned from lunar missions and information about returning samples of a comet to Earth.
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