{"id":827,"date":"2012-10-18T14:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=827"},"modified":"2012-10-18T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:47:29","slug":"one-space-launch-one-space-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/one-space-launch-one-space-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"One Space Launch, One Space Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty years ago today — October 18, 1962 — Ranger 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral on its mission to the Moon.<\/p>\n

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\n(Ranger 5. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nRanger 5<\/a> launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket, but unfortunately it did not complete its mission. It was intended primarily to “transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth stations during a period of 10 minutes of flight prior to impacting on the Moon, to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon,” and to complete other objectives, but <\/p>\n

Due to an unknown malfunction after injection into lunar trajectory from Earth parking orbit, the spacecraft failed to receive power. The batteries ran down after 8 hours, 44 minutes, rendering the spacecraft inoperable. Ranger 5 missed the Moon by 725 km. It is now in a heliocentric orbit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIn more successful space history, on this date 45 years ago, the Soviet Union’s Venera 4<\/a> landed on Venus.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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