Ranger 8, a NASA lunar hard-impact imaging probe. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 launched it on 17 February 1965; it returned 7,137 photographs before impacting Mare Tranquillitatis on 20 February.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 368 kg
- Flight
- 28th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1965, 17:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1965-010
- Launches in 1965
- 12th of 124
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