Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
23:21:00
Sunday November 6, 1966
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The Lunar Orbiter 2 robotic spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for the selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
Trans Lunar Injection
1 Payload
386 kilograms
84th
Mission
22nd
Mission of 1966
111th
Orbital launch attempt