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... -9 ) the lesson that the kinds of experiments on these flights I lunar photography of RANGER VIII and PEGASUS I micrometeoroid detection satellite on Saturn I ) proved there were many unmeasured ... the answers to lunar questions critical to the Apollo program, and concluded: "The two successful Ranger shots, however, make clear that much valuable information can be gathered about the earth's ...

... Laboratory JPL 's Dr. Robert Nathan had developed computer system that was doubling resolution of Ranger lunar photographs. Picture data were taken directly from magnetic tape and digitized for insertion into ... BM 7094, thereby bypassing kinescope response that had contributed to distortion of published Ranger pictures. Calibration data obtained before Ranger flight were used to remove noise and distortion which brought "a dramatic ...

... Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Agena B. After the Agena had carried the 800-lb. RANGER IX into 115-mi.-altitude parking orbit with 17,500 mph orbital speed, the Agena ... ., 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 ... 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 ...

... . Webb presented Cdr. Schirra with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Analysis of scientific measurements by RANGER III lunar probe showed gamma ray intensity in interplanetary space probably is 10 times greater ... . NASA announced five additional lunar spacecraft would be launched in Project Ranger during 1964. The live additions brought total scheduled Rangers to 14. Beginning of two-month-long Project Firefly under USAF ...

... ; and obtain touchdown dynamics, thermal, and radar reflectiv­ity data see Jan. 9-22 . Surveyor VII -which also carried magnets attached to landing pads, mirrors for viewing beneath spacecraft and for ... Surveyor series to carry both alpha-scattering instrument and surface sampler. Launch sequence for Surveyor VII was flawless, and spacecraft per­formed nominally. First of two scheduled midcourse maneuvers was so ...

... Bank Observatory , Sir Bernard said variations in the signals heard at Jodrell Bank showed LUNA VII 's retrorockets were fired at 4:58 p.m. EDT for six minutes, He estimated that LUNA VII , traveling about 2 mps. was slowed down by five-eighths of a mile a second ... and the building and use of big boosters, Webb refused to classify Russia's LUNA VII mission as unsuccessful, explaining: "They're practicing how to do these things. They must have ...

... the Distinguished Service Medal.)'' NASA Exceptional Service Medal was presented to the crews of Gemini VII (Astronauts Borman and Lovell) and VI (Astronauts Schirra and Stafford) ; William C. Schneider, Deputy Director ... Launch Vehicle Div., AFSC 6555th Aerospace Test Wing: and AFETR Test Operations Div. ''(MSC Gemini VII / Gemini VI Fact Sheet; Exec, Secy., MSC Awards Committee; NASA Proj, Off,)'' ComSatCorp invited design ...

... previous Ranger lunar spacecraft-particularly heat cycle were suspected of directly contributing. to Ranger mission failures, NASA lowered decontamination requirements for current Ranger spacecraft. It was now only required that microbes on Rangers be ...

... lunar probe. New launch date would depend on further study of failure of RANGER VI 's TV camera system before impacting the moon Feb. 2. NASA-JPL investigators still ... NASA Manned Spacecraft Center , said in Houston that failure of RANGER VI lunar TV probe was "a grave disappointment." Despite Ranger failure, target date for manned lunar landing was still 1969, he ...

... and the second reduced spacecraft lifetime. . . ." ''(Testimony; NASA Auth. Hearings, 928-35)'' Telemetry data from RANGER IX indicated that the probe was on such an accurate course toward the moon that ... Propulsion Laboratory JPL engineers decided to delay for one day a planned mid-course correction, RANGER IX began its 245,500-mi. trip to the moon Mar. 21, and was 144 ... in an article in the New York Herald Tribune: "First, they are just plain curious. Rangers 7 and 8 photographed two lunar seas and taught scientists that all such ‘maria’ are ...

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