Surveyor 2, a NASA lunar soft-landing probe launched on an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral toward Sinus Medii; a midcourse thruster failed to ignite, the spacecraft tumbled out of control, and it impacted near Copernicus on 22 September.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Lunar Impactor
- Lunar impact
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1966, 12:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1966-084
- Launches in 1966
- 94th of 131
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