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Surveyor 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 20 Sept 1966, 12:32 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas Centaur D (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar Impactor
Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Lunar probe lost due to the failure of a vernier engine during a midcourse correction maneuver which sent the spacecraft in an unrecoverable tumble.