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53 years ago today...
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53 years ago today, Ranger 7 impacted in the Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds, in an area that was later named the Mare Cognitum [the Known Sea]) on the Moon, returning the first close-up images; this contemporary JPL film (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9ObreaOE8 ) shows the action in the SFOF (Space Flight Operations Facility) and the Von Karman Auditorium. Also, here (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqLtNzB_S18&t=25s ) is the live coverage of Surveyor 1’s soft landing in the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) on June 2, 1966, less than two years later.
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I love watching these old documentaries. The things we (USA with new funny sounding citizens) accomplished with slide rules, simple plotters, and just a few k of memory in two or three computers were amazing. I look at N. Korea and shake my head. The thugs in power think they are so bleepin smart and all they've done is semi successfully lofted a few rockets. We bullseyed the moon on the sixth try in 1964. It takes them six tries just to hit the ocean in 2017!
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I'm sure that's a bonus for them, but that only helps when they actually hit the ocean. They've been having them blow up and break up during ascent, so even if those do hit the ocean, they don't count. About the only missiles that look like they may be consistent performers are the short range stuff that's derived from the Scuds they got back in the 70's.
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