Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space scientists may not be able to explain the last-minute failure of Ranger 6 for weeks - if ever. As the spacecraft hurtled toward the moon's Sea of Tranquillity, it sent back a vast amount of data; it reported on its changing internal temperature, its bat tery voltages, the position of its antennas. But none of the information that Ranger sent back has yet accounted for the failure of its TV cam eras. "We're still studying it," said Director William Pickering of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I'm trying to leave the boys alone." Whatever...
...week was seared with rockets. The U.S. communications satellite, Echo II, expanded its aluminum skin and made ready to reflect messages from space. Saturn 5, boosting the biggest payload man has ever lofted into orbit, shot into the vast blue reaches above Cape Kennedy. Soon after, Ranger 6 arced on a graceful, curving course toward the moon. From a secret launching pad, half the world away, Soviet scientists fired a missile that spewed out two separate satellites. The variety of the shots was as impressive as the number, and the infinite distances of the universe seemed to shrink perceptibly...
...known and unknown hazards of space. One hour before impact, according to the plan, when it is about 4,000 miles from the moon, Goldstone would tell it to turn again, pointing its six TV cameras at the approaching lunar surface. With the moon 900 miles away and Ranger approaching at 4,000 m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those pictures would have helped pick a site for future manned moon landings. But in its final dive, Ranger 6 made its first failure. Its TV cameras did not warm...
Trailing 47-35, the Crimson began to nit its shots with the accuracy of the Ranger 6. As the four Harvard fans in Payne Whitney gym went wild, the quintet reeled off eight straight points in two minutes. Yale held a tenuous lead until early in the fourth quarter...
Mistaken Impression. Daughter of a U.S. forest ranger, Jean Saubert, 21, learned to ski from her father, who took her to Sun Valley, Idaho, for two weeks' vacation once a year. The family settled in Cascadia, Ore., just 40 miles from Hoodoo Ski Bowl, and by the time she was 14, Jean was good enough to win the slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom...