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Moon Mission: Mankind’s First Voyages To Another World

Moon Mission: Mankind’s First Voyages To Another World. Rotavion Phillips 10/24/12. Ranger: Live From The Moon. At its peak during the mid-sixties, an estimated 430,000 Americans were involved with putting a man on the Moon.

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Moon Mission: Mankind’s First Voyages To Another World

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  1. Moon Mission: Mankind’s First Voyages To Another World Rotavion Phillips 10/24/12

  2. Ranger: Live From The Moon • At its peak during the mid-sixties, an estimated 430,000 Americans were involved with putting a man on the Moon. • But before the Lunar Module (LM) could make its first landing, there was a great deal more to about the Moon itself and testing a series of unmanned lunar scouts-robotics spacecraft. • The scouts’ names defined their missions-Ranger, Surveyor, and Lunar Obiter

  3. Ranger (cont.) • The dictionary defines a “ranger” as someone who patrols or reconnoiters a species area or region. • Project Ranger was born in December 1959. • Rangers 1 and 2 were failures . Rangers 3, 4, & 5 were equipped with a small, spherical instrument package encased in a 2 foot diameter balsa wood ball.

  4. Ranger (cont.) • Ranger 4 crashed into the Moon’s far side. • Ranger 6 was launched on January 30, 1964. It carried only television cameras, designed to transmit high-resolution pictures. Having a single objective did make the mission less complicated nevertheless, Ranger 6 was another failure.

  5. Lunar Orbiter 5 • Lunar Orbiter 5 was sent to he Moon on August 1, 1967. It returned 212 photographs. The combined images from all five missions covered 99 percent of the Moon’s surface Several penetrating views of craters, such as Tyco and Aristarchus, proved to be scientifically significant as well as aesthetically pleasing

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