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Image:Ranger1.jpg 200px Ranger 1 lunar probe Category:Spacecraft

Image:Ranger3.jpg 200px Ranger III lunar probe Category:Spacecraft

Image:Ranger6.jpg 200px Ranger VI lunar probe Category:Spacecraft

... the spacecraft and launch vehicle but were not injected into the desired orbit. RANGER III , RANGER IV IV , and RANGER V V were to rough-land a seismometer package on the moon to ... on Feb. 20, 1965, transmitted 7,137 pictures. Total number of photographs from RANGER VII , RANGER VIII VIII , and RANGER IX IX was 17,267. ''(NASA Release 65-96; Sullivan, NYT, 3/22 ... watching televised pictures of the moon's surface transmitted by RANGER IX , President Johnson issued a congratulatory statement that said: "Ranger 9 showed the world further evidence of the dramatic accomplishments of ...

... House ceremony September 14. ''(NYT, 8/2/64, 78)'' Expressing congratulations on the success of RANGER VII lunar mission, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany said in telegram to President Johnson ... the scientific history of modern times." British astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell praised the success of RANGER VII and said: "The results will be of . . . critical importance to the American plan for ...

... -100)'' House Committee on Science and Astronautics" Subcommittee on NASA Oversight began hearings on Project Ranger . Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Joseph E. Karth (D.-Minn.) remarked that "the action that precipitated these ... Board of Inquiry (Kelley Board) prior to RANGER VI and the Hilburn Board following RANGER VI . Hilburn report outlined: (1) design changes effected after analyses of RANGER VI flight Bata; (2) changes agreed ...

... of failures using—some were launched with Thor, with Thor-Able rocket. These all preceded Ranger. There were a dozen failures, ten or eleven failures. Was it that high? Maybe not ... , but I'm not sure. There may have been another. How many Rangers were there? '''Dinkel:''' I've got Ranger 9, 7, 8, and 9. '''Cortright:''' There were nine. Seven, eight, and ... we agreed to have parallel programs, and Mariner started early on. That was similar to Ranger in many of its concepts, and the first one that worked. The first interplanetary mission ...

... , theoretical astrophysicist Thomas Gold of Cornell Univ. tried to explain why the Ranger pictures resolved so little: "The Ranger pictures are like a mirror. Everyone sees his own theories reflected in them ... surface might be lower than had been calculated: "The data indicates that RANGER VII and RANGER VIII VIII , and maybe RANGER IX , landed one second late because the moon was one mile small ...

... -hr. flight. This was the first Ranger launch since October 1962, when extensive review of the Ranger project was undertaken because of previous Ranger failures. For RANGER VI , changes were made in subsystems to improve reliability and provide redundancy in some areas; also, sterilization requirements for Ranger spacecraft ...

... landing program. Dr. William Pickering , Director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL which is responsible for Ranger project management as well as its tracking and communications through Deep Space Network , said of ... attempts" Kenneth W. Gatland , Director of the British Interplanetary Society , referred to the failure of RANGER VI 's cameras to take pictures: "I should say this is one of the most ...

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