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Lunar Orbiter camera system

This picture gives a look at the camera system that was used on all five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. On August 14, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 became the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon.

 

The Lunar Orbiter Program, managed by NASA's Langley Research Center, was one of three uncrewed programs undertaken by NASA to collect data and help select site for the Apollo lunar landings. The low orbits around the Moon provided extensive photographic coverage of specified areas. The program was a series of five uncrewed Lunar Orbiter missions from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface,they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.

 

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Image Number: 1967-L-05646

Date: June 21, 1967

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Taken on June 21, 1967