Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

17:05:00

Wednesday February 17, 1965

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Ranger 8

Wiki

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.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

367 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-LV3 Agena-B

Active 1961 to 1965


Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,725 kg

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-12

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

32 days 4 hours

Stats

Atlas-Agena


50th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1965

1965


12th

Orbital launch attempt