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Lunar Orbiter 1 enters lunar orbit
Lunar Orbiter 1, operated by NASA of United States, enters lunar orbit on 1966-08-14. Photographed candidate Apollo landing sites, and took the first picture of Earth from the distance of the Moon.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Lunar Orbiter 1 · mission · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
NSSDCA master catalogue — Lunar Orbiter
Launch and orbit-insertion dates for the Lunar Orbiter photographic survey.
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · Partly verified
NSSDCA master catalogue, Lunar Orbiter entries