Lunar Orbiter 5, NASA’s final Lunar Orbiter mission, which entered a near-polar lunar orbit to photograph remaining Apollo landing-site candidates and fill global mapping gaps. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 launched it on 1 August 1967; it returned 174 medium- and high-resolution frames.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 392 kg
- Flight
- 47th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 1 August 1967, 22:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- International designator
- 1967-075
- Launches in 1967
- 83rd of 139
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