Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
17:05:00
Wednesday February 17, 1965
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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
50th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1965
12th
Orbital launch attempt