1966-09-20 USA Surveyor 2

A Surveyor 2 launch cover from "SpaceCraft Swanson", postmarked at Cape Canaveral with a machine cancel on September 20, 1966, signed by Howard B. Haglund, the Deputy Project Manager for Hughes Aircraft Co. Operation.

Just before Surveyor 2 touchdown moon on 22 September 1966, one of its thrusters malfunctioned during a mid course correction, causing it tumbled out of control and crashed into the moon, southeast of the crater Copernicus.