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This day in 1962 NASA launched its first space probe designed to impact the lunar surface. What was the failed spacecraft called?
This day in 1962 NASA launched its first space probe designed to impact the lunar surface. What was the failed spacecraft called?
January 25, 2012 •
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Ranger 3
The probe, carrying a TV camera and seismometer in its instrument package, missed the Moon by almost 23,000 miles.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon just seven years later, on July 21, 1969.
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