Pioneer P-31 (Able VB), a NASA lunar orbiter with science and spacecraft-maneuvering experiments, launched on the last Atlas-Able from Cape Canaveral; the vehicle exploded about 68 seconds after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Atlas-Able flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1960, 09:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas-Able
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- Launches in 1960
- 36th of 38