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... 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 Lear ... the Ranger VII mission. The pictures sent back home by the ingeniously constructed robot dragonfly contain no more assurance of the safety of a manned landing on the moon than existed before Ranger VII ...

... :64-08-05.pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) RANGER VII briefing to members of Congress, with Harris ''("Bud")'' Schurmeier, Ranger Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , and Dr. Gerard P ... craters as we observe them." ''(NASA Transcript)'' Success of RANGER VII spotlighted NASA's preparation for further lunar and planetary exploration, including two more Rangers (early next year), Surveyor soft-landing spacecraft, Lunar ...

... regarding remainder of Ranger flight program. At press conference, NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans , Jr., explained that the single aim of the Board was to determine when Ranger VII would be launched. Until the mystery of RANGER VI's failure was solved, NASA was delaying launch of Ranger VII, which also would have mission of ...

... 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 take ... 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 and ...

... ¦ 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. of ... ." ''(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 Administrator ...

... closeup photographs of the moon taken by RANGER VII in July 1964. The scientists would first receive a set of 199 high-quality pictures taken by RANGER VII 's "A" camera; photographs taken by other cameras would be sent later, NASA had also sent RANGER VII photographs to the European Space Research Organization ...

... , theoretical astrophysicist Thomas Gold of Cornell Univ. tried to explain why the Ranger pictures resolved so little: "The Ranger pictures are like a mirror. Everyone sees his own theories reflected in them ... 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 ...

... would convert solar energy to electrical power for its equipment. About 3½ hrs. after launch, RANGER VIII completed its orientation maneuvering, achieved attitude stabilization, and pointed a high-powered antenna toward ... give more contrast and better definition of detail than was in the photographs made by RANGER VII . A small rocket aboard the craft would be fired later to correct a moon-miss ...

... a larger area than planned and to provide greater continuity with the pictures transmitted by RANGER VII last July 31. A second change in the flight was to turn on cameras 23 ... anticipated and more telemetry data had been lost during midcourse maneuver than had been expected. RANGER VIII had been launched Feb. 17 from Cape Kennedy . ''(NASA Transcript; Appel, NYT, 2/21 ... . Gerard P. Kuiper of the Univ. of Arizona, heading the panel for scientific evaluation of RANGER VIII photographs, said at a press conference that one of the most important results of ...

... RANGER VII spacecraft successfully completed its midcourse correction maneuvers to put the spacecraft on its final collision course to the moon. RANGER VII carried out series of orders involving switching from the directional to ...

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