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Image:Tiros9.jpg 200px Tiros IX weather satellite Category:Spacecraft

REDIRECT GEMINI IX

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Gemini 9 Contractors briefing May 1966 Gemini 9 Crew Debriefing June 11 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript 2 June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript PAO June 3 1966 Gemini Titan 9 Composite flight transcript June 3 1966 Category:Spacecraft Category:Mission

... of the RANGER IX signal system to the standard 500 lines of commercial television. The Ranger program had begun inauspiciously in 1961 with a series of failures and near-misses. Rangers 1 and 2 ... -up photos of the lunar surface. RANGER VIII , launched 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 ...

NASA's RANGER IX , equipped with six television cameras, was successfully launched toward the moon from Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Agena B. After the Agena had carried the 800-lb. RANGER IX into ... sec., increasing the velocity to about 24,525 mph and freeing RANGER IX from the major pull of the earth's gravity, RANGER IX then continued on its 2½-day, 245,000-mi. trip ... moon-would be only 11° from Alphonsus. Five hours after lift-off, NASA announced that RANGER IX 's course was so accurate it would hit the moon only 400 mi. north of ...

... to evidence of widespread collapse of the lunar surface, probably due to underground movement: "The RANGER IX 's pictures scared me more than anything. There's all sorts of evidence that some ... 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. The ...

... RANGER IX indicated that the probe was on such an accurate course toward the moon that Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL engineers decided to delay for one day a planned mid-course correction, RANGER IX ... Alphonsus as the target for RANGER IX were given by David Hoffman in an article in the New York Herald Tribune: "First, they are just plain curious. Rangers 7 and 8 photographed two ...

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