TAG | 46 years ago: First U.S. spacecraft, Ranger 4, impacts Moon |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Tuesday, 22 April 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Ranger 4, along with the other Ranger spacecraft, helped to prepare NASA to send astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo program. In February 1965, Ranger 8 took pictures over the southern part of Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Nubium. It later crashed in Mare Tranquillitatis, near where the Apollo 11 lunar lander would set down in July 1969. For more information on the Ranger series of U.S. spacecraft, visit: NASA Solar System Exploration: Missions to the Moon: Ranger Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI): Universities Space Research Association (USRA): The Ranger Program LPI: USRA: Ranger Photographs of the Moon
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