SpaceHackadayabout 3 hours ago
Retrotechtacular: A View of the Moon from 1964
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A 1964 film, "Lunar Bridgehead," documents JPL monitoring the Ranger spacecraft's hard lunar impacts. The Ranger program faced early failures: the first five probes missed the moon, and Ranger 6 hit but its cameras failed. Ranger 7 became the first successful mission, followed by two more successes.
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