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=== Accomplishments ===
Surveyor 6 was the first spacecraft to lift off from another celestial body.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424211923/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-24 |url-status=live|title=Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016|page=1|last1=Siddiqi|first1=Asif A.|lccn=2017059404|isbn=9781626830424|publisher=NASA History Program Office|edition=second|year=2018|id=SP2018-4041|series=The NASA history series|location=Washington, DC}}</ref> It was monitored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. It used its liquid-fueled vernier engines to lift itself from its original landing site to a position some 10 feet away.<ref>[http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1967/Space-Successes/12303074818188-8/ "1967 Year In Review, UPI.com"]</ref>

This was later noted by the [[Mars Geyser Hopper]] mission as a post-soft landing propulsive hop that pre-dated its proposal.<ref name=mgh2012>{{cite web |url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsconcepts2012/pdf/4219.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003302/http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/marsconcepts2012/pdf/4219.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=live |title=Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration (2012): ASRG Mars Geyser Hopper}}</ref>

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