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The Ranger Program

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Release Date : 2020-05-12

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*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further reading Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 "winning" the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America "won" the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today's International Space Station and continued space exploration. The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the Moon during Apollo 11 had complicated roots dating back over a decade, and it also involved one of NASA's most infamous tragedies. Landing on the Moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government's urgency in designing the Apollo program was actually brought about by the Soviet Union, which spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). In 1957, at a time when people were concerned about communism and nuclear war, many Americans were dismayed by news that the Soviet Union was successfully launching satellites into orbit. Among those concerned was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose space program was clearly lagging a few years behind the Soviets' space program. From 1959-1963, the United States worked toward putting satellites and humans into orbit via the Mercury program, but Eisenhower's administration was already designing plans for the Apollo program by 1960, a year before the first Russian orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and asked the nation to "commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Given America's inability to even put a man in orbit yet, this seemed like an overly ambitious goal, and it isn't even clear that Kennedy himself believed it possible; after all, he was reluctant to meet NASA Administrator James E. Webb's initial funding requests. Throughout the 1960s, NASA would spend tens of billions on missions to the Moon, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point, and Apollo was only made possible by the tests conducted through earlier missions, including the historic Ranger Program. Conceived as an early part of the attempt to land a man on the Moon, Ranger was designed to photograph the lunar surface in preparation for future landings. Until Ranger, images of the Moon were only available through Earth-based telescopes, which lacked the detail necessary to determine safe sites for landing a spacecraft. Ranger aimed to fill in that gap of knowledge, and like many of NASA's missions during the 1960s, the program exemplified both the successes and the failures of the agency's early years. Nonetheless, the Ranger Program would set important precedents by taking the first close-up photos of the Moon and landing the first American spacecraft on the lunar surface. The Ranger Program: The History and Legacy of NASA's Initial Attempts to Land a Spacecraft on the Moon examines the origins behind the missions, the space probes involved, and the historic results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Ranger Program like never before.

Project Ranger A Chronology

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Author : R. Cargill Hall
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Release Date : 1971

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Nasa Ep

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Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Release Date : 1961

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Nasa Thesaurus

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Nasa Sp

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1963 Nasa Authorization

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
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Release Date : 1962

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Goddard

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Author : Goddard Space Flight Center
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Release Date : 1964

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Methods Of Investigating The Atmosphere With Rockets And Satellites

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Author : Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kmito
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Release Date : 1967

Methods Of Investigating The Atmosphere With Rockets And Satellites written by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kmito and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Astronautics in meteorology categories.

Nasa Thesaurus Hierarchical Listing

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Instruments And Spacecraft October 1957 March 1965

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Author : Electro-Optical Systems (Firm)
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Release Date : 1966

Instruments And Spacecraft October 1957 March 1965 written by Electro-Optical Systems (Firm) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Astronautical instruments categories.