Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft
Lunar Orbiter 3 was NASA’s final Apollo landing-site survey orbiter. Launched in 1967, it returned images of the Moon—including the Surveyor 2 lander—despite an imaging readout failure, then was intentionally crashed onto the lunar surface.
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- LO-CSpacecraft 6Lunar Orbiter IIILunar Orbiter 3 spacecraft
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- Lunar Orbiter 3
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- Lunar Orbiter 3 Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft
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- Lunar Orbiter 3 was NASA’s final Apollo landing-site survey orbiter. Launched in 1967, it returned images of the Moon—including the Surveyor 2 lander—despite an imaging readout failure, then was intentionally crashed onto the lunar surface.
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- 1,967
- Last Flight Year
- 1,967
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- August 13, 2026 at 07:04:46 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 15, 2026 at 01:56:59 UTC