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Ranger 8
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 17 Feb 1965, 05:05 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas Agena B (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar Impactor
Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Lunar impactor which successfully reached the surface after transmitting 7,137 photographs.