Ranger 8
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| Launch date | February 17, 1965, 7:05 PM GMT+2 |
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| Mission duration | 2. 7 days |
| Impact date | February 20, 1965, 09:57:36. 756 UTC |
| Manufacturers | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 |
| Did you know | Following launch on February 17, 1965, Ranger 8 successfully completed its mission with a planned crash-landing in Mare Tranquillitatis, where the Apollo 11 astronauts would land 4-1/2 years later. |
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| ID | 1247100 |
About Ranger 8
Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for Apollo missions and were used for scientific study.
