July 31, 1964: Ranger 7 returns the first close pictures of the Moon

With the Space Race heating up, the Ranger program was developed as an answer to Sputnik: The U.S. would land spacecraft on the Moon. When President John F. Kennedy vowed in 1961 to put a man on the lunar surface, the project evolved. Instead of being purely scientific or exploratory, Ranger spacecraft would also beContinue reading “July 31, 1964: Ranger 7 returns the first close pictures of the Moon”
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