[1] On April 20, 1967, the Surveyor 3 spacecraft landed within the crater near the east rim.

The Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed the Lunar Module (LM) Intrepid north of Surveyor crater on November 19, 1969, and eventually walked over to Surveyor 3.

[6] Soil Sample 12042 was collected on the southwest rim near Halo crater.

Samples 12056,[12] 12062,[13] 12063,[14] 12064[15] (all ilmenite basalts), and 12065 (pigeonite basalt)[16] were all likely collected in the interior of the crater near the east rim and northeast of the Surveyor 3 lander.

Samples 12045,[17] 12046,[18] and 12047[19] (all ilmenite basalts) were collected at Block crater on the north rim of Surveyor crater.