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Ranger 9: nationwide TV audience watched live video as it purposefully crashed into the Moon within the crater Alphonsus (March 24, 1965)
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Ranger 9: nationwide TV audience watched live video as it purposefully crashed into the Moon within the crater Alphonsus (March 24, 1965)
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In 1965, the Ranger 9 probe captured these sharp images of a cratered lunar surface just moments before its planned impact. What we learned paved the way for Apollo. #Apollo50th
TODAY IN HISTORY: NASA’s Ranger 9 probe crashed into the Moon, transmitting images as it zoomed down a one-way path to glory, March 24, 1965.
TODAY IN HISTORY: NASA’s Ranger 9 probe crashed into the Moon, transmitting images as it zoomed down a one-way path to glory, March 24, 1965.
Ranger 9 lunar impact sequence, March 24th 1965, 53 years ago today.
Ranger 9 crashes into the Moon, March 24, 1965.
Ranger 9 Impact (dramatised) (by moonflash21)