The Rocket that Hopped

Surveyor 6 may not have been the first craft to make a soft landing on the Moon, but it *is* the first craft to take off from the surface of another world. And it did so in a very adorable way. Long before any Apollo astronaut, Surveyor 6 hopped on the Moon.

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