Ranger 8 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
Ranger 8 was NASA’s second successful Ranger lunar impact mission, returning 7,137 high-resolution photographs before impacting the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility in 1965 near the future Apollo 11 landing site.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Ranger 8Ranger VIIIRanger 8 lunar probeRanger 8 spacecraft
- Family Name
- Ranger 8
- Full Name
- Ranger 8 Lunar Impact Spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeimpactorresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Ranger 8 was NASA’s second successful Ranger lunar impact mission, returning 7,137 high-resolution photographs before impacting the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility in 1965 near the future Apollo 11 landing site.
- First Flight Year
- 1,965
- Last Flight Year
- 1,965
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/ranger-8/
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:05:43 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 15, 2026 at 02:02:45 UTC