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... 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 ...

... )'' Dr. Frank K. Edmonson, chairman of the Astronomy Dept. at the Univ. of Indiana, said RANGER VIII photographs had suggested that the moon might have features in common with the Karst ... Indiana and that a request for aerial photographs of the Karst region had been made. RANGER VIII 's pictures showed that the Sea of Tranquillity on the moon was pocked and ... limestone layers was similarly pocked with sink holes. Dr. Gerard Kuiper, chief experimenter for the RANGER VIII project, and Dr. Harold C. Urey of the Univ. of California at La Jolla ...

... Applications, Dr. Homer E. Newell , NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, said: "The Ranger pictures represent our major scientific achievement in 1964. In addition to their direct value as ... recognized generally. It is interesting to note how the information presented in the high resolution Ranger pictures has sent scientists scurrying back to the files of photographic plates taken years before ...

... air to ground Gemini Titan 3 Media:GT03_TE3.PDF Gemini Titan 3 transcript supplemental RANGER IX underwent a midcourse correction maneuver at 7:03 a.m. EST that would aim ... -sec. burn of a small jet engine, speeded up its flight by 40.6 mph, RANGER IX was then 175,416 mi. from earth, traveling at 2,943 mph. Newly estimated ... target point of 13° south latitude and 2,5° west longitude, Before the correction maneuver, RANGER IX was headed for a point about 400 mi. north of Alphonsus. Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

... exploration. The article said: "Dr. Homer E. Newell , NASA associate administrator, told Congress last year: 'Ranger will play an important role in the support of Project Apollo ,' ... "Not a single change ... program's operational plan as a result of the Ranger findings, None is contemplated. The reason for this is simple. The Block III Rangers were incapable of producing any such data... , "The ...

... Agena second stage did not restart, leaving deep-space probe Ranger in parking orbit. Results reported to delay lunar-landing Ranger shot in early 1962. NASA announced that record Argo D-8 ...

... RANGER III was launched from Atlantic Missile Range AMR ; excessive acceleration by the Atlas 1st-stage ... signals too weak to provide usable television photographs from the ones RANGER took of the moon as it passed it. RANGER III went into orbit around the sun. The flight proved out ...

... in space exploration : launched into orbit were ARIEL Cosmos IV, and two unidentified USAF satellites; RANGER IV impacted the far side of the moon; and a U.S.-Japanese probe was launched from Wallops. RANGER IV impacted on the moon at 7:40:53 AM EST, ending a 231,486 ... .3° E, 15.5° 8, on a part of the moon never seen by man. RANGER IV's instrumentation, which ceased useful operation some ten hours after launch, never functioned again ...

... B , the Agena B stage attaining parking orbit and 25 min. later reigniting to send RANGER V toward the moon. The spacecraft's solar cells did not provide power, making it impossible for reception of flight-path correction signal and rendering its television cameras useless. RANGER V was to have relayed TV pictures of the lunar surface and rough-landed an ...

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