\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> After the failure of Surveyor 2, Surveyor 3 makes the second US lunar soft-landing on Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms); fitted with telescopic arm and scoop to dig trenches to test consistency of lunar soil; Apollo 12 astronauts touch down near Surveyor 3 in November 1969; Surveyor 5, 6 and 7 also successful (in September and November 1967, and January 1968).