After taking more than 7,000 high resolution images of the Moon, Ranger 8 successfully impacted the Sea of Tranquility 60 years ago today. Images from the Ranger program helped us select landing sites for Apollo. NASA's Ranger program: https://go.nasa.gov/42WwpyE | NASA History

On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/zzM5dv The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of the moon, but the cameras failed, and no images were ever returned. This was the sixth mission failure for the Ranger program. Congress wasn't too happy with the series of failures and called an investigation into man