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... lunar probe. New launch date would depend on further study of failure of RANGER VI 's TV camera system before impacting the moon Feb. 2. NASA-JPL investigators still ... NASA Manned Spacecraft Center , said in Houston that failure of RANGER VI lunar TV probe was "a grave disappointment." Despite Ranger failure, target date for manned lunar landing was still 1969, he ...
... required for the USS Enterprise. . . ." ''(Transcript, Wash. Post, 9/6/64)'' Lunar photographs made by RANGER VII and interpretations of their findings were discussed in Saturday Review by Science Editor John ... that the Congress and the people have been misled about the true significance of the Ranger VII mission. The pictures sent back home by the ingeniously constructed robot dragonfly contain no ...
... and the second reduced spacecraft lifetime. . . ." ''(Testimony; NASA Auth. Hearings, 928-35)'' Telemetry data from RANGER IX indicated that the probe was on such an accurate course toward the moon that ... Propulsion Laboratory JPL engineers decided to delay for one day a planned mid-course correction, RANGER IX began its 245,500-mi. trip to the moon Mar. 21, and was 144 ... in an article in the New York Herald Tribune: "First, they are just plain curious. Rangers 7 and 8 photographed two lunar seas and taught scientists that all such ‘maria’ are ...
... . NASA Associate Administrator Seamans announced the addition of four additional Ranger spacecraft, bringing the total to nine, the number of Rangers to be launched in this phase of the lunar exploration program ... of the program to land an American on the Moon by 1970," said Dr. Seamans. Ranger I completed 100 orbits, transmitting data on all engineering devices and eight scientific experiments. It ...
... de­ signed to make a giant stride in lunar exploration technology beyond that of the Ranger. Surveyor will demonstrate soft landing technology , will survey various landing areas on the lunar surface ... restricted during FY 1963 to permit reprogramming of funds into more critical areas in the Ranger and Surveyor landing programs. Design work has proceeded, however, and has resulted in . . . a system ...
... territory. ''(AP, Wash. Post, 12/14/63)'' Cancellation of five follow-on flights of the Ranger lunar impact spacecraft announced by NASA Associate Administrator for Space Sciences and Applications Dr. Homer ... . Dr. Newell said: "By this move, we are placing greater reliance on the remaining four Rangers, the Surveyor landers and the Lunar Orbiters for unmanned lunar exploration prior to manned landings ...
... by the U.S. ''(NYT, 2/11/64)'' Examining the failure of RANGER VI as well as previous Ranger lunar probes, William Coughlin pointed out in Missiles and Rockets editorial that Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Ranger project manager, is "the only NASA facility where NASA owns all the land, owns all ...
... on its hearings on the repeated failures in the Ranger spacecraft program. The committee concluded that NASA provided too little direction on Ranger, while Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL was too resistant to ... appointed as deputy to JPL director to be in charge of complex projects such as Ranger; (3) NASA should streamline its relationship to JPL to achieve JPL responsiveness to NASA direction ...
NASA's RANGER VII spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy on its flight to the moon. After an ... into a parking orbit around the earth, and then the Agena engines refired to place RANGER VII on its trajectory to the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras designed to ... the moon. The launching was so accurate that, even without the standard midcourse correction maneuver, RANGER VII would hit the moon. However, scientists wanted pictures of the "Sea of Clouds" region ...
... ¦ longItude, 68 hrs. and 36 min. after takeoff. At news conference on preliminary results from RANGER VII, held at Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , principal experimenter Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of Univ ... ." ''(NASA Transcripts)'' President Johnson personally congratulated scientists and technicians responsible for the successful flight of RANGER VII. He congratulated Dr. William Pickering, Director of JPL, and Dr. Homer Newell, NASA Associate ...

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