RANGER 6 (launched January 30, 1964) - Lot 50

RANGER 6 (launched January 30, 1964) Lot of 6 photographic prints: - Close-up of the RCA television system carried aboard Ranger 6 (captioned photo no. 151-452B). - Ranger 6 ready for vibration testing (captioned photo no. 314-5987AC). - The anatomy of Ranger 6. Uncaptioned photo. - Ranger 6 flying low over the moon (captioned photo #P-2914). - 1 drawing of Ranger 6 showing coverage of the probe's 3 tracking and communications stations: Johannesburg (South Africa),Woomera (Australia), Goldstone (California). Captioned photo no. P-2909. - 1 drawing of Ranger 6 showing the limitations of the probe's trajectories for the shots to be taken (areas to be avoided). Uncaptioned photo. The Ranger program was designed to take precise snapshots of the moon and gather information on the composition of the lunar surface. 9 Ranger probes were launched from an Atlas-Agena B rocket between August 23, 1961 and March 24, 1965. They were produced by JPL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California). After several failures from Ranger 1 to Ranger 6, the program was a success from Ranger 7 onwards.