Ranger 7: the story
Ranger 7 · Chapter 1 of 3
28 July 1964
Launch
Ranger 7 left Earth on a Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Launch Complex 12.
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Ranger 7 · Chapter 2 of 3
1964
Life’s work
The first American spacecraft to send back close-up pictures of the Moon. It took 4,308 photographs in its last 17 minutes before striking the surface on purpose.
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Ranger 7 · Chapter 3 of 3
31 July 1964
Impact
Ranger 7 kept its cameras running all the way down and hit the Moon in the region later named Mare Cognitum, the Known Sea.
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