BD-0100 Ranger 8 Footage 1965
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Channel: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives · 2012 · Education
TV footage of the moon surface 1965 NASA color/silent/13:50 min Footage of the Ranger 8 landing on the moon. Ranger 8 impacted the Sea of Tranquility on 20 February 1965, slamming into the surface at 2.8 km/s after transmitting over 7000 TV images for the prior 23 minutes. The first images in the sequence, taken from about 2500 km above the Moon, encompass the eventual "soft" landing sites of Surveyor 5, and Apollos 11, 12, and 14. Justin Rennilson, a senior scientist at JPL at the time, was charged with coordinating astronomical observatories around the world in attempts to observe the impact. Shortly after the end of the mission, John Hewitt of the JPL Photolab provided him with a 16mm movie prepared from still images from one of Ranger 8's cameras. Justin last presented the movie at the German Optical Society Conference in Berlin, in June 1965. From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/research/ Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission.
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