Ranger 7 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
Ranger 7 was NASA’s first unequivocally successful U.S. lunar mission, returning 4,316 close-up images before impacting the Moon in 1964; its data helped identify safe Apollo landing sites.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Ranger 7Ranger VIIRanger 7 lunar probeRanger 7 spacecraft
- Family Name
- Ranger 7
- Full Name
- Ranger 7 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeimpactorresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Ranger 7 was NASA’s first unequivocally successful U.S. lunar mission, returning 4,316 close-up images before impacting the Moon in 1964; its data helped identify safe Apollo landing sites.
- First Flight Year
- 1,964
- Last Flight Year
- 1,964
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ranger-7/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:04:40 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:04:40 UTC