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Mission
Kind: Lunar impactor
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Instruments: 1) Vidicon Television Cameras,
Date
Start:
Duration: 65 hours
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas LV-3 Agena-B 196D/AA13
Kind: NASA
Manufacturer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mass: 367 kilograms (809 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral LC-12
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
Place: Lunar
Ranger 8 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early-to-mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. These pictures helped select landing sites for Apollo missions and were used for scientific study. During its 1965 mission, Ranger 8 transmitted 7,137 lunar surface photographs before it crashed into the Moon as planned. This was the second successful mission in the Ranger series, following Ranger 7. Ranger 8's design and purpose were very similar to those of Ranger 7. It had six television vidicon cameras: two full-scan and four partial-scan. Its sole purpose was to document the Moon's surface.
