Pioneer 0 (Able 1), the world's first attempted lunar probe with TV camera, magnetometer, and micrometeoroid detector, was destroyed when Thor-Able I (Thor #127) exploded ~74 s after launch from Cape Canaveral LC-17A.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Thor Able I flights
- Date and time
- 17 August 1958, 12:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Able I
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1958
- 14th of 28