... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. ... The two separate lens, shutter, and platen systems utilized the same film supply and recorded imagery simultaneously in adjacent areas on 70-millimeter film. ...
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... The Giotto Spacecraft . ... Nucleus . ... The goal was to come within 500 kilometers (310 miles) of Halley's comet at closest encounter. ... During the Halley encounter, Giotto crossed the bow shock at 1.15 million kilometers (715,000 miles) from the nucleus. ... On July 10, 1992, the Giotto spacecraft successfully completed its second close encounter with a cometary nucleus, when it passed within approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) of Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup at 15:30 UTC (ground receive time)...