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...hour trip began well. Blasting off from Cape Kennedy, Surveyor was aimed so precisely that without correction it could have hit the moon within 26 miles of its intended landing site-one of the most accurate launches achieved by the U.S. space program. But controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aiming for perfection, ordered a delicate midcourse maneuver to place Surveyor directly on target. It was then that the entire mission came close to disaster...
...Distant Orders. Tilted at a 20° angle on the side of a small crater, Surveyor almost immediately began transmitting high-quality photographs of the surrounding landscape, including a shot of its own footpad covered by lunar soil kicked up by the landing. On orders from distant Pasadena, it again briefly fired its verniers while its cameras peered at the surface to observe blast effects...
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...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...
Soaring through space nearly a million miles from the earth, Mariner 5 responded smartly last week to signals radioed from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thereby ensuring that its Oct. 19 date with Venus would be as intimate as intended. The spacecraft pitched, rolled and fired its rocket engine for 17.66 seconds, giving the spacecraft a 36-m.p.h. boost and arcing into a trajectory that should carry it past Venus at a distance of only 1,250 miles...