Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
01:17:00
Sunday February 5, 1967
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The Lunar Orbiter 3 was a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1967 as part of the Lunar Orbiter Program. It was designed primarily to photograph areas of the lunar surface for confirmation 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
89th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1967
9th
Orbital launch attempt