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Pioneer 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 11 Oct 1958, 08:42 am UTC
Rocket: Thor Able I (Thor)
Provider: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
The second pioneer orbiter, pioneer 1 intended to enter lunar orbit but missed the Moon after a third stage partial failure.