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Title: Ranger 7 Launch
Caption: Launch of the Ranger 7, (also called Ranger B), lunar probe aboard an Atlas-Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 28th, 1964. Ranger 7 was put on an impact trajectory with the Moon. Its six television cameras were activated on July 31st, less than 20 minutes before impact. Before crashing, Ranger 7 was able to transmit 4308 photographs of the Moon's surface. The Atlas-Agena D rocket was a development of a military intercontinental ballistic missile.
Category: black & white • Astronomy & Space
Credit: Album / Science Source
Image size: 3712 × 4707 px | 50.0 MB
Print size: 31.4 × 39.9 cm | 1461.4 × 1853.1 in (300 dpi)