Preface
CONTENTS
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15. SIX TO THE MOON |
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SOURCES
APPENDIXES
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I. |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure |
Description |
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Front Cover |
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Moon |
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JPL Director William Pickering in 1954 |
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STL Pioneer Lunar Probe (Courtesy TRW) |
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JPL Pioneer Lunar Probe |
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The Able Lunar Orbiter (Courtesy TRW) |
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Atlas-Vega Launch Vehicle |
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Nose Fairing, Spacecraft JPL Third Stage |
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G.E. Second Stage |
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Atlas First Stage (in two parts) |
| 5d | Atlas First Stage (in two parts) |
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Luna 1 |
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NASA Administrator Keith Glennan, Deputy Administrator Hugh Dryden, and Associate Administrator Richard Horner |
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Luna 3 |
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NASA Space Flight Programs Director Abe Silverstein |
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JPL Lunar Program Director Clifford Cummings |
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JPL Ranger Project Manager James Burke |
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Marshall Agena Systems Manager Friedrich Duerr |
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Air Force Ranger Manager John Albert with James Burke |
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JPL Ranger Project Assistant Manager Gordon Kautz |
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NASA Lunar and Planetary Programs Chief Edgar Cortright |
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1960 Ranger Project Organization |
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Lockheed Agena Manager Harold Luskin |
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Spacecraft Attitude Stabilization in Three Axes |
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Vega Spacecraft Model |
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NASA Space Flight Programs Assistant Director for Space Sciences Homer Newell |
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Ranger Spacecraft Preliminary Design |
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Spacecraft Packaging |
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Typical Assembly Package |
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Ranger 1 and 2 Spacecraft Design |
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Ranger 3, 4, and 5 Superstructure Design |
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Venera 1 |
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Ranger Block I Proof Test Model and Nose Shroud Mockup |
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Ranger 1 in Systems Test Complex |
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NASA Lunar Flight Systems Chief Oran Nicks |
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Scientific Experiments on the Block I Spacecraft |
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Scientific Experiments on the Block H Spacecraft |
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JPL Deep Space Instrumentation Facility Director Eberhardt Rechtin |
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Station Locations in the Deep Space Network |
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Twenty-Six-Meter Radio Antenna at Goldstone |
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The Deep Space Network-Spacecraft Link |
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JPL Space Flight Control Center, 1961 |
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Space Trajectory Selected for Rangers 1 and 2 |
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Agena B Satellite Configuration |
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Ranger Ascent Sequence |
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Three-Meter Antenna at Johannesburg |
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Launch of Ranger 1 |
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Deep Space Tracking Coverage as a Function of Spacecraft Altitude |
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Ranger 2 Countdown Progresses Beneath a Full Moon |
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JPL Ranger Spacecraft Systems Manager Allen Wolfe |
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Ranger Block III Television Camera Sequencing |
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Model of Ranger Block III Preliminary Design |
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NASA Administrator James Webb |
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NASA Ranger Program Chief William Cunningham |
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Sterile Assembly of a Seismometer Capsule at Aeronutronic |
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Spacecraft, Showing Solar Panel Requirements |
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Lunar Launch Constraints |
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Technicians Make Final Adjustments to Ranger 3 at Cape Canaveral |
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Launch of Ranger 3 |
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Ranger Block II Midcourse Maneuver |
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Ranger Block Il Terminal Maneuver Sequence |
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Technicians Prepare Ranger 4 for Launch at Cape Canaveral |
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Red, White, and Blue Cross (Copyright, Los Angeles Times; Reprinted with Permission) |
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The Mariner R Spacecraft and Launch Vehicle |
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JPL Space Flight Control Center Readied for Ranger 5 |
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Ranger 5 Ignition |
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Officials Assembled for the Ranger 5 Postlaunch Press Conference at Cape Canaveral |
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JPL Lunar and Planetary Program Director Robert Parks |
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JPL Ranger Project Manager Harris Schurmeier |
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The Ranger Block III Spacecraft as Viewed from Above |
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The Ranger Block III Spacecraft as Viewed from Below |
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Assembly of Ranger 6: Installation of the Midcourse Motor |
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The Television Subsystem Is Readied for Tests at JPL |
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Northrop Manager of Project Ranger William Howard |
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JPL Ranger Block V Project Manager Geoffrey Robillard |
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JPL Ranger Project Scientist Thomas Vrebalovich |
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Block III Principal Investigator Gerard Kuiper |
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Block III Coexperimenter Eugene Shoemaker |
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Block III Coexperimenter Harold Urey |
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Block III Coexperimenter Raymond Heacock |
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Block III Coexperimenter Ewen Whitaker |
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At JPL Technicians Make Final Adjustments on Ranger 6 |
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The Audience in Von Karman Auditorium Hears Downhower Describe the Final Moments in the Flight of Ranger 6 |
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Homer Newell, William Pickering, and Harris Schurmeier Answer Newsmen’s Questions at Ranger 6 Postflight Press Conference |
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"You're Shy-I’m Shy 28 Million Bucks" (Courtesy Fort Wayne [Indiana] News-Sentinel |
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NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Industry Affairs Earl |
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Dick Tracy Investigates, With Note From Burke to Schurmeier (Created by Chester Gould (c) Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate) |
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Exposed Pins in the Agena Umbilical Connector |
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Net Control Area in the New Space Flight Operations Facility |
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Launch of Ranger 7 |
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Newell, Pickering, and Cortright Confer at the Flight Control Center Early on July 31, 1964 |
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Cheering |
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And Weeping |
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Newell and Pickering Shake Hands Before the Ranger 7 Postflight Press Conference |
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Experimenters Heacock, Kuiper, and Whitaker Examine Ranger 7 Pictures at the Flight Control Center |
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Ranger 7 Closeup Pictures of the Sea of Clouds. Series of photos |
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An area 370.6 km on a side |
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An area 2960m on a side, with the Large Crater in the upper left about 100m in diameter |
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"Howdy" (Courtesy Tom Little in The [Nashviilel Tennessean) |
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Newell and Pickering Brief President Johnson |
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Shoemaker and Kuiper Answer Newsmen's Questions at the Interim Scientific Results Conference |
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Ranger Block III Terminal Maneuver |
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Kuiper, Heacock, and Whitaker Examine Ranger 8 Pictures at the Flight Control Center |
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Ranger 8 Pictures of the Sea of Tranquility. Series of photos |
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An area 107.8 km (N-S) by 123.9 km (E-W) |
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An area 1360.3m (N-S) by 1296.3m (E-W) |
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At Headquarters, NASA Administrator James Webb Explains Lunar Surface Model for President Johnson and Vice-President Humphrey |
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"Successful Launch" (Courtesy Gene Basset, Scripps-Howard Newspapers) |
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Urey, Whitaker, and Shoemaker Watch Ranger 9 Pictures Live" at the Flight Control Center |
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Urey, Kuiper, and Shoemaker Confer Before Ranger 9 Experimenters' Press Conference |
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Ranger 9 Pictures of the Crater Alphonsus. Series of photos |
| 101 a | An area 214 km (N-S) by 202.7 km (E-W) |
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| 101 d | An area 3.2 km on a side |
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"Ranger 9 Touch" (Courtesy Tom Little in The [Nashville] Tennessean) |
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White House Awards Ceremony |
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X-Ray of Human Skull and X-Ray Enhanced by Computer Processing |
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| 104 b | X-Ray of Human Skull Enhanced by Computer Processing |
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Appendix F: Ranger Schedule History |
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Appendix G: Ranger Financial History |
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Back Cover |
NOTES
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THE ORIGINS OF RANGER |
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ORGANIZING THE CAMPAIGN |
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SPACE SCIENCE AND THE RANGER MACHINE |
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RANGER’S LUNAR OBJECTIVES IN DOUBT |
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SUPPORTING THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS |
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TEST FLIGHTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS |
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A NEW NATIONAL GOAL |
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THE QUESTION OF SCIENCE AND RANGER |
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LUNAR EXPLORATION BEGUN |
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WHICH WAY RANGER? |
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IN THE COLD LIGHT OF DAWN |
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HOMESTRETCH ENGINEERING |
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SPACE SCIENCE: A NEW ERA AND HARD TIMES |
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MORE MISSIONS FOR SCIENCE? |
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SIX TO THE MOON |
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THE WORST OF TIMES |
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RANGER 7: A CRASHING SUCCESS |
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KUDOS AND QUESTIONS |
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THE RANGER LEGACY |
INDEX
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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