On this day in 1965 - February 20th - NASA's Ranger 8 ended its mission by a crash landing on the Moon.
Ranger 8 was the first NASA spacecraft to take high resolution close-up images of the Moon's surface. It transmitted over 7000 images, intended to help choose landing sites for Apollo missions, before its own mission ended.
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