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... 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 ...

... success; this effort will be combined with lessons learned from the Ranger 6 failure to provide the best assurance of Ranger 7 success. We have invested the energy of some of the ... on that investment in both the near and the far future." ''(Testimony)'' At conclusion of Ranger management hearings by Subcommittee on NASA Oversight, House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Sub-committee ...

... have been foolish to settle for one success: "Just imagine that the Martians sent a Ranger-like camera to take pictures of the earth, With just one shot, they'd end ... anything about the earth from pictures of just one of these?" The Ranger program, just concluded with the success of RANGER IX , gave U.S. scientists good pictures of three different areas of the moon, Shoemaker said, "A Ranger picture is worth a million computer words." ''(Perez, Houston Post, 4/8/65)'' Panel on ...

... corrective procedures being prepared by Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , then make recommendations regarding remainder of Ranger flight program. At press conference, NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans , Jr., explained that ... the Board was to determine when Ranger VII would be launched. Until the mystery of RANGER VI's failure was solved, NASA was delaying launch of Ranger VII, which also would have mission ...

... GET brought docked configuration into same orbit as Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV VIII -launched March 16 for GEMINI VIII mission-preparatory to later rendezvous.. Standup Eva began at 23:27 GET ... Eva began at 48:08 GET: Collins removed fairing from Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV VIII and retrieved micrometeoroid detection experiment-completing most productive work ever accomplished on Eva mission. Collins ...

... of changes in illumination created by the Sun and other scientific experiments." Third spacecraft, Soyuz VIII, carrying Cosmonauts Vladimir A. Shatalov and Dr. Aleksey S. Yeliseyev, was launched from Baikonur at ... medical-biological tests, Soyuz VII was observing and photographing earth and celestial bodies, and Soyuz VIII was conducting research on polarization of solar light reflected by atmosphere. On Oct. 14 Tass ...

... program . . . intended to achieve the high reliability required for Ranger lunar missions." Improvements resulting from test program would be incorporated in Rangers 7-9, launching of which would be delayed "several months ... Advanced Research and Technology. After intensive one-month study of Ranger system Board concluded that "certain improvements could be made in Ranger spacecraft design, construction, systems test and checkout which could contribute ...

... . (8) Historian A. L. Rowse, a leading British expert on the Elizabethan age, considers Henry VIII's final failure to conquer the French one of the luckiest embarrassments England ever endured ... against the French with which Henry nearly bankrupted his government, see: J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1968, pp. 3335, 453456, and virtually the entire rest ...

... plan entailed designs of eight models of vehicles, designated the RH-I to VIII (for Rakete-Hoefft I to VIII). The RH-I was a liquid oxygen/alcohol sounding rocket carrying recording ... was a two-stage vehicle, and so on, until the staged RH-V to RH-VIII models designed for flights into space. Interestingly, the upper stage of his RH IV was ... of his most advanced proposals was to use a space station to build his RH-VIII in order to avoid launching such a large vehicle from the surface of the Earth ...

... Northrop Corp. for negotiation of con­tract to support Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL in Project Ranger design review, reliability studies, documentation, systems testing, checkout, and spacecraft launch operations support.. Contract would ... be assigned complete spacecraft system responsibility for the Ranger program" beginning with Rangers to be launched in 1965; Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL would retain Ranger-project management. ''(NASA Release 63-50)'' Three-stage ...

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