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Ranger Satellite Servicing M …
Ranger is a spaceflight qual …
7/8/08
Description Ranger is a spaceflight qualified dexterous robotic servicing system that was primarily designed per the requirements for robotic servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The fifth and final Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled for October 2008.
Date 7/8/08
Assignment Shoot The Moon Ep …
ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON ( …
1967
Description ASSIGNMENT: SHOOT THE MOON (EPISODE 5) HQ 167 - (1967) - 28 Minutes Summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted by the unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and lunar orbiter spacecraft. Also shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of close-up photography of the Moon and includes views of craters, mountain ranges, and other lunar terrain. AWARDS: Golden Eagle, Council on International Nontheatrical Events (CINE), 1968 * Award of Merit, American Film Festival, 1968
Date 1967
The Return of Buzz Lightyear
Disney's space ranger Buzz L …
9/17/09
Description Disney's space ranger Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11, aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will celebrated in a ticker-tape parade together with his space station crewmates and former Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin on Oct. 2, at Walt Disney World in Florida. While on the space station, Buzz supported NASA's education outreach program-- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)--by creating a series of fun educational online outreach programs. Following his return, Disney is partnering with NASA to create a new online educational game and an online mission patch competition for school kids across America. NASA will fly the winning patch in space. In addition, NASA plans to announce on Oct. 2, 2009, the details of a new exciting educational competition that will give students the opportunity to design an experiment for the astronauts on the space station. Image Credit: NASA
Date 9/17/09
Buzz Lightyear Returns From …
ED09-0266-09 Disney's space …
9/18/09
Description ED09-0266-09 Disney's space ranger Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11 aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will be celebrated in a ticker-tape parade together with his space station crewmates and former Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin on Oct. 2 at Walt Disney World in Florida. September 11, 2009 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Date 9/18/09
Buzz Lightyear Returns From …
ED09-0266-34 Disney's space …
9/16/09
Description ED09-0266-34 Disney's space ranger Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11 aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. While on the station, Buzz supported NASA's education outreach program «Éœ STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) by creating a series of fun educational online outreach programs. Following his return, Disney is partnering with NASA to create a new online educational game and an online mission patch competition for school kids across America. NASA will fly the winning patch in space. In addition, On Oct. 2 NASA plans to announce details of a new exciting educational competition that will give students the opportunity to design an experiment for astronauts on the space station. September 11, 2009 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Date 9/16/09
Viking Checkup
title Viking Checkup
date 05.20.1971
description A technician checks the soil sampler on an earlier generation of Mars lander - Viking - in this 1971 photo. Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to land safely on Mars on July 20, 1976. The robotic arm scooped samples of the Martian soil, emptied it into a hopper on the lander, which analyzed it with three scientific instruments. NASA's Viking Lander was designed, fabricated, and tested by the Martin Marietta Corp. of Denver, Colorado, under the direction of the Viking Progect Office at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The lander drew heavily on the experience gained from the Ranger, Surveyor and the Apollo Programs in the areas of radar, altimeters, facsimile, cameras, soil samplers and landing gear. *Image Credit*: NASA
Mariner 1
title Mariner 1
date 01.22.1962
description After approval by NASA Headquarters in September 1961, JPL prepared three spacecraft based on the design of the Ranger Block I series (therefore named Mariner R) to fly by Venus in late 1962. Each spacecraft carried a modest suite (9 kilograms) of scientific instrumentation but had no imaging capability. The spacecraft included 54,000 components and was designed to maintain contact with Earth for 2,500 hours -- an ambitious goal given that the (still unsuccessful) Ranger was designed for only 65 hours of contact. Mariner 1 would have flown by Venus at a range of 29,000 kilometers on 8 December 1962, but due to an incorrect trajectory during launch, range safety had to destroy the booster and its payload at T+290 seconds.
Ranger 4 Preparations
title Ranger 4 Preparations
date 03.06.1962
description Technicians prepare the Ranger 4 spacecraft for launch. An impact absorbing sphere made of balsa wood sits atop the spacecraft, painted with a saw-tooth pattern to maintain thermal balance during its mission to the Moon. The sphere contained a lunar seismometer, which was to rough land just south of the equator on the rim of the Ocean of Storms and measure "lunarquakes." The master clock in Ranger 4's computer failed during flight and the spacecraft did not respond to commands. It crashed into the far side of the Moon on April 26, 1962. Despite the failure to return information, the use of balsa wood was an important precursor in the design of other rough landings on extraterrestrial bodies, particularly Mars. Aerobraking, gliding, impact absorption, parachuting, and retro rockets have all been considered. *Image Credit*: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Ranger Spacecraft
title The Ranger Spacecraft
description The Ranger fleet of spacecraft launched in the mid-sixties provided for the first time live television transmissions of the Moon from lunar orbit. These transmissions resolved surface features as small as 10 inches across and provided over 17,000 images of the lunar surface. These detailed photographs allowed scientists and engineers to study the Moon in greater detail than ever before thus allowing for the design of a spacecraft that would one day land men of Earth on its surface. *Image Credit*: NASA
JPL Space Flight Control Cen …
title JPL Space Flight Control Center Readied for Ranger 5
description JPL Space Flight Control Center Readied for Ranger 5. (Patrick Rygh is Stated at the Center Console.) *Image Credit*: NASA
Listening to Ranger 6
title Listening to Ranger 6
date 02.02.1964
description An audience at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory listens to a description of the final moments of Ranger 6 in 1964. Ranger 6 impacted the Moon as planned on Feb. 2, 1964, but a malfunction disabled its camera system. *Image Credit*: NASA
Ranger 1
title Ranger 1
description Ranger 1 was a spacecraft whose primary mission was to test the performance of those functions and parts necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and planetary missions using essentially the same spacecraft design. A secondary objective was to study the nature of particles and fields in interplanetary space. *Image Credit*: NASA
Ranger 3
title Ranger 3
date 01.26.1962
description Ranger 3 was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. Due to a series of malfunctions the spacecraft missed the Moon. *Image Credit*: NASA
Ranger 8
title Ranger 8
date 02.17.1965
description Ranger 8 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and 4 narrow angle (channel P) to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality video pictures. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft. *Image Credit*: NASA
First Ranger 9 Image
title First Ranger 9 Image
date 03.24.1965
description The first Ranger 9 image of the Moon, taken with the A camera from a distance of 2378 km. The image is centered on the Mare Nubium region of the Moon, which extends to the bottom of the image. At upper left is southeastern Oceanus Procellarum. The two craters with the central peaks at right are Alphonsus, diameter 108 km, and below it Arzachel, diameter 96 km. The crater near the center at about 8:00 is 60 km Bullialdus. The frame is approximately 1050 km across and north is at 12:30. The final impact point of Ranger 9 is in the Alphonsus crater, midway between the central peak and rim at about 1:30. (Ranger 9, A001) *Image Credit*: NASA
First Picture of the Moon Ta …
title First Picture of the Moon Taken by Ranger 8
date 02.20.1965
description First full-frame image of the Moon taken by the Ranger 8 camera A from a distance of 2,573 km. The image was taken on 20 Feb. 1965 at 09:34 UT with the spacecraft at an altitude of 2510 km. The central reticle is at 10.65 degrees south latitude, 22.4 degrees west longitude, in the Mare Cognitum area of the Moon. North is up, and the picture extends 1200 km across, from about 5 N to 30 S latitude, and from 5 W to 45 W longitude. The craters Campanus and Mercator are visible at the bottom center. Gassandi crater (101 km diameter) is the bright circle near the edge of the frame at 8:00. The Apollo 12 landing site is near top center and Apollo 14 slightly to the right of that. (Ranger 8, A001) *Image Credit*: NASA
First U.S. Image of the Moon
title First U.S. Image of the Moon
date 07.31.1964
description Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT) about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface. The area photographed is centered at 13 S, 10 W and covers about 360 km from top to bottom. The large crater at center right is the 108 km diameter Alphonsus. Above it is Ptolemaeus and below it Arzachel. The terminator is at the bottom right corner. Mare Nubium is at center and left. North is at about 11:00 at the center of the frame. The Ranger 7 impact site is off the frame, to the left of the upper left corner. (Ranger 7, B001) The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were to be used for scientific study, as well as selecting landing sites for the Apollo Moon missions. Ranger 7 was the first of the Ranger series to be entirely successful. It transmitted 4,308 high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight, the final image having a resolution of 0.5 meter/pixel. Ranger 7 was launched July 28, 1964 and arrived at the Moon on July 31, 1964. *Image Credit*: NASA
Ranger 4
title Ranger 4
date 04.23.1962
description Ranger 4 was designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing of the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft. An onboard computer failure caused failure of the deployment of the solar panels and navigation systems, the spacecraft impacted on the far side of the Moon without returning any scientific data. *Image Credit*: NASA
Ranger 9
title Ranger 9
date 03.21.1965
description Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and 4 narrow angle (channel P) to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality video pictures. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft. *Image Credit*: NASA
Technician Checks Soil Sampl …
Title Technician Checks Soil Sampler on Viking Lander
Full Description A technician checks the soil sampler of the Viking lander. An arm will scoop up a sample of the Martian soil, empty it into a hopper on the lander which will route the sample to each of the three scientific instruments, biology, gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer and water analysis. NASA's Viking Lander was designed, fabricated, and tested by the Martin Marietta Corp. of Denver, Colorado, under the direction of the Viking Progect Office at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The Lander drew heavily on the experience gained from the Ranger, Surveyor and the Apollo Programs in the areas of radar, altimeters, facsimile, cameras, soil samplers, landing gear, etc.
Date 05/20/1971
NASA Center Headquarters
The Ranger Spacecraft
Title The Ranger Spacecraft
Full Description The Ranger fleet of spacecraft launched in the mid-sixties provided for the first time live television transmissions of the Moon from lunar orbit. These transmissions resolved surface features as small as 10 inches across and provided over 17,000 images of the lunar surface. These detailed photographs allowed scientists and engineers to study the Moon in greater detail than ever before thus allowing for the design of a spacecraft that would one day land men of Earth on its surface.
Date 01/01/1961
NASA Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL's Space Flight Operation …
Title JPL's Space Flight Operations Facility
Full Description In May 1964, a ceremony was held to dedicate the new Space Flight Operations Facility, which used state-of-the-art equipment for mission operations and communications with JPL's unmanned spacecraft. One of the first missions to use the facility was Ranger 7, which went to the Moon in July 1964. The Space Flight Operations Facility collected the tracking and scientific information for the Deep Space Network. In 1985, the Space Flight Operations Facility was designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is still in use.
Date UNKNOWN
NASA Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Kurt Debus and Dr. von B …
Name of Image Dr. Kurt Debus and Dr. von Braun
Date of Image 1962-04-12
Full Description Dr. Kurt Debus and Dr. von Braun during prelaunch activities of the Ranger IV at Launch Pad 12 on April 12. 1962.
Atlas-Agena
Name of Image Atlas-Agena
Date of Image 1962-04-23
Full Description The Atlas-Agena-4 boosted the Ranger IV spacecraft for the first U.S. lunar impact on April 23, 1962.
Warm Fire in Northern Arizon …
Title Warm Fire in Northern Arizona
Description Between the Grand Canyon and the Utah-Arizona state line, the Warm Fire was billowing out thick smoke on June 19, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The location where MODIS detected actively burning fire is outlined in red. According to the June 20 report from the National Interagency Fire Center, [ http://www.nifc.gov/information.html ] the lightning-caused Warm Fire had burned 5,400 acres in the Kaibab National Forest, and it was threatening some residences, campgrounds, and a historic ranger station. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Resolves Expiration D …
Title Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon
Explanation Using the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope [ http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/ answer.php.id=77&cat=topten ], astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese [ http://www.planetfusion.co.uk/~pignut/cheese.html ]. The telling clue was the resolution of a marked date after which the Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ] may go bad. Controversy [ http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/ GPWeiten/C1Intro/GreenCheese.html ] still exists, however, over whether the date resolved is truly an expiration date [ http://www.consumeraffairs.com/nutrition/ expiration_dates.htm ] or just a "sell by" date. "To be cautious, we should completely devour the Moon by tomorrow," a spokesperson advised. Happy April Fool's Day from the folks at APOD [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050616.html ]. The above image [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/ ra9_b001.html ] (slightly altered) was actually taken in 1965 by the Ranger 9 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/ MasterCatalog?sc=1965-023A ] probe minutes before impact. The popular Moon is made of Green Cheese [ http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990723a.html ] myth can be traced back almost 500 years. It has been used historically in context to indicate a claim so clearly false that no one -- not even April Fools [ http://wilstar.com/holidays/aprilfool.htm ] -- will believe it.
Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Ar …
Title Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel
Explanation These three ancient, large impact craters lie on the north eastern shores [ http://www.lunarrepublic.com/atlas/sections/e4.shtml ] of Mare Nubium, the lunar [ http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/lunarform/ maria.html ] Sea of Clouds. Along the top of the stark mosaic [ http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/Big_mosiac.html ] (left to right) are the namesakes of [ http://www.cityastronomy.com/ptolemy-article.htm ] Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus and Arzachel. The picture offers a remarkably detailed view of the well-studied [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_(crater) ] region with shadows emphasizing the large crater central peaks and slumping walls. Careful examination also reveals the 110 kilometer long Straight Wall [ http://www.salzgeber.at/astro/moon/straight_wall.html ], a fault 200-300 meters high, and the intriguing Davy crater chain [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/ 3dsolarsystem/slide_17.html ]. Overall, the striking moonscape is similar to the final images recorded by the Ranger 9 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/ MasterCatalog?sc=1965-023A ] spacecraft, before it crashed into the 108 kilometer wide crater Alphonsus in [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060401.html ] March of 1965.
Hubble Resolves Expiration D …
Title Hubble Resolves Expiration Date For Green Cheese Moon
Explanation Using the new camera [ http://www.stsci.edu/hst/localNews?display_type=all#HeadlineNews ] on the recently refitted [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020314.html ] Hubble Space Telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010806.html ], astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese [ http://www.cheese.com/facts1.asp ]. The telling clue was the resolution of a numeric date after which the Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ] may go bad. Controversy [ http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/GreenCheese.html ] still exists, however, over whether the date resolved is truly an expiration date [ http://www.consumeraffairs.com/nutrition/expiration_dates.htm ] or just a "sell by" date. "To be cautious, we should completely devour the Moon by tomorrow," a spokesperson advised. Happy April Fool's Day [ http://www.usis.usemb.se/Holidays/celebrate/april.html ] from the folks at APOD [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html ]. The above image [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/ra9_b001.html ] (slightly altered) was actually taken in 1965 by the Ranger 9 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1965-023A.html ] probe minutes before impact. The popular "Moon is made of Green Cheese" myth [ http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990723a.html ] can be traced back almost 500 years. It [ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/wcc3/humor/green_cheese.html ] has been used historically in context to indicate a claim so clearly false that no one -- not even April Fools [ http://wilstar.com/holidays/aprilfool.htm ] -- will believe it.
The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 S …
Title The Sea of Tranquillity: 5 Seconds To Impact
Explanation On February 20th, 1965, the Ranger 8 spacecraft [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ranger.html ] crashed into the Moon [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html ]. Rapidly transmitting a series of pictures to ground controllers, its camera recorded this one [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/ra8_b090.html ] at an altitude of about 11 kilometers, 5 seconds before impacting the lunar surface. Two kilometers across, with 4 meter sized objects visible, the picture is of an area in the Sea of Tranquillity north of the Apollo 11 [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm ] landing site. The Ranger spacecraft represented the first attempts by the US to obtain high resolution photos of the Moon, flying a crash course toward selected areas and sending back pictures until the moment of impact. Tomorrow, another spacecraft [ http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/dx/basket/pressrelease/99_36AR.html ] will be intentionally crashed into the Moon. Its very successful mission in lunar orbit complete, the Lunar Prospector [ http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/ ] is scheduled to crash [ http://www.lunarimpact.com/ ] into a crater near the Moon's [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980115.html ] south pole in an effort to confirm the presence of water-ice [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980306.html ] by studying the impact's debris cloud.
Moon Crashers
Title Moon Crashers
Explanation On July 31, 1964, Ranger 7 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/database/www-nmc?64-041A ] crashed into the Moon. Seventeen minutes before [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990730.html ] impact it snapped this picture - the first image of the Moon [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/ra7_b001.html ] ever taken by a U.S. spacecraft. Of course Ranger 7 was intended to crash, transmitting close-up pictures of the lunar surface during its final moments. The Ranger program's [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ranger.html ] goal was to begin high resolution mapping of the lunar surface in preparation for a future lunar landing [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/ ]. This first image covered 360 kilometers from top to bottom and is centered in the Mare [ http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/geography_items/mare.html ] Nubium (Sea of Clouds). The large crater at middle right, Alphonsus [ http://lunarprospector.arc.nasa.gov/science/ geography_items/carters/craters_a.html ], is 108 kilometers in diameter. On July 31, 1999, Lunar Prospector crashed [ http://www.lunarimpact.com/ ] into the Moon. During its successful 1 year mission to map the Moon's global properties from orbit, Lunar Prospector confirmed indications that water-ice [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html ] could be trapped in permanently shadowed craters near the lunar poles. Its mission complete, controllers intentionally targeted [ http://science.nasa.gov/current/event/ast04jun99_2.htm ] the spacecraft to impact a crater wall, hoping that water could be more directly detected in the resulting debris cloud - although the chances of a successful detection were considered low. Astronomers [ http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~cfpl/lunar/observations.html ] analyzing the data recently announced [ http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~cfpl/lunar/pressrelease/discussion.html ] that no visible signature of water was found, so the tantalizing case for water on the Moon remains open [ http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast13oct99_1.htm ].
Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seagull
Title Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seagull
Description Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seagull: Although drag reduction was very important to radial engined aircraft, it was no less important to aircraft such as this inline Ranger powered Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seagull. Here the Seagull is shown in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel in October of 1940. The XSO3C-1 was also undergoing study to improve engine cooling. Published in Aircraft, FST, Curtiss XSO3C-1 Seagull, Full Scale Tunnel, Nicklas
Date 10.17.1940
First Image of the Moon take …
Title First Image of the Moon taken by a U.S. Spacecraft
Description Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by aU.S. spacecraft, on 31 July 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT)about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface. The area photographed is centered at 13 S, 10 W and covers about 360 km from top to bottom. The large crater at center right is the 108 km diameter Alphonsus. Above it is Ptolemaeus and below it Arzachel. The terminator is at the bottom right corner. Mare Nubium is at center and left. Nor this at about 11:00 at the center of the frame. The Ranger 7impact site is off the frame, to the left of the upper left corner. (Ranger 7, B001) The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were to be used for scientific study, as well as selecting landing sites for the Apollo Moon missions. Ranger 7 was the first of the Ranger series to be entirely successful. It transmitted 4,308high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight, the final image having a resolution of 0.5 meter/pixel. Ranger 7 was launched July 28, 1964 and arrived at the Moon on July 31, 1964.
Date 07.31.1964
Guericke Crater as seen by R …
Title Guericke Crater as seen by Ranger 7
Description Ranger 7 B-camera image of Guericke crater (11.5 S, 14.1 W, diameter 63 km) taken from a distance of 1335 km. The dark flat floor of Mare Nubium dominates most of the image, which was taken 8.5 minutes before Ranger 7 impacted the Moon on 31 July 1964. The frame is about 230 km across and north is at 12:30. The impact site is off the frame to the left. (Ranger 7, B100) The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were to be used for scientific study, as well as selecting landing sites for the Apollo Moon missions. Ranger 7 was the first of the Ranger series to be entirely successful. It transmitted 4,308high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight, the final image having a resolution of 0.5 meter/pixel. Ranger 7 was launched July 28, 1964 and arrived at the Moon on July 31, 1964.
Date 07.31.1964
Warm Fire in Northern Arizon …
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle …
Between the Grand Canyon and …
Railroad_Valley.AMO2006170
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mediatype image
date 2006-06-19
creator NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
identifier Railroad_Valley.AMO2006170
First Image of the Moon take …
PIA02975
Earth
Title First Image of the Moon taken by a U.S. Spacecraft
Original Caption Released with Image Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the Moon by aU.S. spacecraft, on 31 July 1964 at 13:09 UT (9:09 AM EDT)about 17 minutes before impacting the lunar surface. The area photographed is centered at 13 S, 10 W and covers about 360 km from top to bottom. The large crater at center right is the 108 km diameter Alphonsus. Above it is Ptolemaeus and below it Arzachel. The terminator is at the bottom right corner. Mare Nubium is at center and left. Nor this at about 11:00 at the center of the frame. The Ranger 7impact site is off the frame, to the left of the upper left corner. (Ranger 7, B001) The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were to be used for scientific study, as well as selecting landing sites for the Apollo Moon missions. Ranger 7 was the first of the Ranger series to be entirely successful. It transmitted 4,308high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight, the final image having a resolution of 0.5 meter/pixel. Ranger 7 was launched July 28, 1964 and arrived at the Moon on July 31, 1964.
Guericke Crater as seen by R …
PIA02974
Earth
Title Guericke Crater as seen by Ranger 7
Original Caption Released with Image Ranger 7 B-camera image of Guericke crater (11.5 S, 14.1 W, diameter 63 km) taken from a distance of 1335 km. The dark flat floor of Mare Nubium dominates most of the image, which was taken 8.5 minutes before Ranger 7 impacted the Moon on 31 July 1964. The frame is about 230 km across and north is at 12:30. The impact site is off the frame to the left. (Ranger 7, B100) The Ranger series of spacecraft were designed solely to take high-quality pictures of the Moon and transmit them back to Earth in real time. The images were to be used for scientific study, as well as selecting landing sites for the Apollo Moon missions. Ranger 7 was the first of the Ranger series to be entirely successful. It transmitted 4,308high-quality images over the last 17 minutes of flight, the final image having a resolution of 0.5 meter/pixel. Ranger 7 was launched July 28, 1964 and arrived at the Moon on July 31, 1964.
Live from the Moon - Impact!
PIA03495
Earth
TV Camera
Title Live from the Moon - Impact!
Original Caption Released with Image On March 24, 1965, a nationwide TV audience watched live video from Ranger 9 as it purposefully crashed into the Moon within the crater Alphonsus. Ranger's six cameras sent back more than 5800 video images during the last 18 minutes of its 3-day journey, the last of the Ranger Project. The last few images show the lunar surface in detail from a few hundred meters above. This sequence of images from Camera A was converted from video to film to laser disc to digital files.
RANGER III SATELLITE FOR USE …
Title RANGER III SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
RANGER IV SATELLITE FOR USE …
Title RANGER IV SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
RANGER II SATELLITE FOR USE …
Title RANGER II SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
MOON SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHED BY …
Title MOON SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHED BY RANGER 9 SPACECRAFT
DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED T …
Title DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED TRI-STAR L-1011 - BELL JET RANGER 11 HELICOPTER AIRCRAFT
DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED T …
Title DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED TRI-STAR L-1011 - BELL JET RANGER 11 HELICOPTER AIRCRAFT
DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED T …
Title DOUGLAS DC-9-40 - LOCKHEED TRI-STAR L-1011 - BELL JET RANGER 11 HELICOPTER AIRCRAFT
RANGER VII SATELLITE FOR USE …
Title RANGER VII SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
RANGER A6 SATELLITE FOR USE …
Title RANGER A6 SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
RANGER V SATELLITE FOR USE A …
Title RANGER V SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
RANGER I SATELLITE FOR USE A …
Title RANGER I SATELLITE FOR USE AT THE PARADE OF PROGRESS SHOW AT THE PUBLIC HALL CLEVELAND OHIO
HIGH RANGER IN USE AT THE SO …
Title HIGH RANGER IN USE AT THE SOUTH 40 AREA OF NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER
HIGH RANGER IN USE AT THE SO …
Title HIGH RANGER IN USE AT THE SOUTH 40 AREA OF NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER
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