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Thor Delta 312/D6 And Explorer 12

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. Lod 61-6900

15 August 1961

A beautiful night view at Launch Complex 17A at the Cape as the Delta LV vents while loxing during pre-launch activity. The Delta 312 was launched on 16 August 1961 with Explorer 12 onboard.

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Atlas Agena B And Ranger 1

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 61-Ranger-15

23 August 1961

A beautiful night launch view at Launch Complex 12 at the Cape. The lunar probe failed to leave Earth orbit. Ranger 1, a test version of the spacecraft which would attempt an unmanned crash landing on the moon. The 306 kg spacecraft did not attain the scheduled extremely elongated orbit because of the misfiring of the Agena B rocket. Although the spacecraft systems were tested successfully, only part of the eight project experiments could be carried out. Ranger 1 re-entered on August 29 after 111 orbits. Ranger 1's primary mission was to test the performance of those functions and parts that are necessary for carrying out subsequent lunar and planetary missions using essentially the same spacecraft design.

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S-15 - Explorer 11

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 61-Juno IIB-3

27 March 1961

S-15 is a highly sophisticated gamma ray astronomy satellite that NASA launched into space on 27 April 1961 onboard Juno II - Jupiter AM-19E launch vehicle. Weighing 95 pounds S-15 will contain a qnique gamma ray telescope to detect and measure cosmic gamma radiation from all directions in space. It will be man's first attempt to measure these very high energy rays from sources other than the earth.

Launched by a four-stage Juno II vehicle, S-15 measures over 88 inches in length, including the vehicle's spent fourth stage rocket (not shown) which will house a transmitting antenna and will furnish the additional length and weight needed in attaining the satellite's data-gathering, tumbling motion in space.

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S-15 - Explorer 11 #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 61-Juno IIB-1

27 March 1961

Cutaway drawing of the gamma ray astronomy satellite S-15. A project of NASA, the highly-sophisticated S-15 is designed to detect and measure high energy gamma rays emitted by the sun, stars and galaxies. It will be man's first attempt to measure these very high energy rays from sources other than the earth.

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S-15 Mating With Juno II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 61-Juno IIB-4

27 March 1961

Here S-15 is lowered into the shroud covering the upper stages of a Juno II test vehicle at the Marshall Centre, where it is spun to check radio frequency and telemetering reception. The Marshall Space Flight Centre will provide and launch the Juno II rocket, which is composed of a modified Jupiter missile originally developed by MSFC employees and four solid-propellant upper stages furnished by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Jupiter AM-19E And S-15 (Explorer 11)

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 61-Juno II-28

27 April 1961

Lift-off of the Juno II - Jupiter AM-19E Launch Vehicle with S-15 onboard from the Cape's Launch Complex 26 Pad B.

S-15 a 95 pound experiment designed to transmit information about the structure of the ionosphere, called S-15. It was successfully launched at 9:17 a.m. EST from the Cape and all four stages fired as planned.

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Atlas LV- 3A / Agena B And Ranger III

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. S-62-467

26 January 1962

Ranger III spacecraft, positioned atop its Atlas Launch Vehicle, undergoes final critical systems tests prior to launch from the Cape. Ranger III was successfully launched 26 January 1962 at 3:30 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 12. Primary objective of the Ranger III was to photograph the lunar surface, make a hard landing and then relay information on surface characteristics as a preliminary to manned lunar landings. Ranger III missed the moon by 36,874 km and went into solar orbit. A malfunction in the booster guidance system resulted in excessive spacecraft speed. Reversed command signals caused the telemetry antenna to lose earth acquisition, and mid-course correction was not possible. Some useful data were obtained from the flight. Of four scientific experiments only one was partially completed: gamma-ray readings of the lunar surface. Attempts to relay television pictures of the moon and to bounce radar signals off the moon at close range were unsuccessful.

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Atlas LV- 3A / Agena B And Ranger III #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. S-62-467

26 January 1962

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Atlas Agena B And Ranger III Lift Off

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

26 January 1962

Ranger III spacecraft, positioned atop its Atlas Launch Vehicle, lifts off from Launch Complex 12 at the Cape.

Its primary objective was to photograph the lunar surface, make a hard landing and then relay information on surface characteristics as a preliminary to manned lunar landings. Ranger III missed the moon by 36,874 km and went into solar orbit. A malfunction in the booster guidance system resulted in excessive spacecraft speed. Reversed command signals caused the telemetry antenna to lose earth acquisition, and mid-course correction was not possible. Some useful data were obtained from the flight. Of four scientific experiments only one was partially completed: gamma-ray readings of the lunar surface. Attempts to relay television pictures of the moon and to bounce radar signals off the moon at close range were unsuccessful.

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Thor-Delta #301 And OSO-1

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. LOD-62PC-25

7 March 1962

A beautiful lift off of the 8th Delta launch with the Thor #301 booster that put the first Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-1) spacecraft in Earth orbit. A perfect lift off from Launch Complex 17 Pad A.

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Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO-1

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 62-OSO-6

3 March 1962

The 440-pound OSO-1 spacecraft will attempt to measure ultra-violet, gamma and X-ray radiations from the sun. This spacecraft was successfully launched into earth orbit on 7 March 1962 by the Thor-Delta 301 booster with the Delta #8 second stage from Launch Complex 17 Pad A at the Cape.

The Orbiting Solar Observatories, developed for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, were designed primarily as stabilized platforms for solar-oriented scientific instruments. The OSOs permitted the first extended study of the sun (from above the earth's filtering atmosphere) with accurate positioning. Experiments on the satellites studied the sun, flares and other solar activities, X-ray, gamma and ultraviolet radiation and radiation from extra-solar sources.

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Model Of OSO-1 At Goddard

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA NO. 62-OSO-6

3 March 1962

Two unidentified employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre. The gentleman standing is holding a model of the OSO-1 spacecraft.

Given time I feel that I can identify these two gentleman as they must have been key executives at Goddard. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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Atlas Centaur AC-1 Launch Vehicle

10 x 8 Black & White Glossy Photograph

NASA No. 62-C-7

27 March 1962

The first Atlas Centaur, variously denoted "C-1" or "F-1", stands at the new Launch Complex 36A at Cape Canaveral. It stood here for 15 months before finally lifting off on 8 May 1962. The vehicle rose cleanly and steered downrange, but 49 seconds after lift off a portion of one of four Centaur LH2 tank "weather shield" insulating panels ripped away. The LH2 fuel tank quickly overheated, over-pressurized, and failed, shredding the Centaur stage and, rapidly thereafter, destroying the entire Atlas vehicle about 55 seconds after lift off.

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Thor Delta D15 And Relay I

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 62-Relay-23

11 December 1962

Erection and mating at Pad 17 of the second stage of this Delta configuration. The increased propellant tank capacity of this second stage will extend the burning time from 109 seconds to approximately 160 seconds. This increase adds 3 feet to the length of the Aerojet General second stage 7,500 lb. thrust engine. This Thor Delta D15 will launch the first Relay active communications satellite on 13 December 1962.

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Relay I Spacecraft

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 62-Relay-18

11 December 1962

The 172-pound spacecraft eight-sided prism is 33 inches high and 29 inches in diameter at its broad end. The exterior composed of eight honeycomb aluminium panels studded with 8,215 solar coils. The communication satellite prime function was to be used for technical experiments, although public demonstrations of television, telephone calls, teletype photo facsimile, and high speed data will be transmitted.

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Atlas LV-3A Agena B And Ranger 7

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 64-Ranger-B-16

28 July 1964

Ranger B (7) was launched from the Cape's Launch Complex 12 at 12:50 EDT on 28 July 1964 onboard a Atlas LV-3A Agena B Launch Vehicle.

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Atlas LV-3A Agena B & Ranger 8

10 x 8 Colour Glossy NASA Photograph

17 February 1965

The Atlas LV3 Agena B lifts off from Launch Complex 12 at the Cape at 12:07 p.m. with the Ranager-C spacecraft onboard. If successful it will be named Ranger-8 after being placed in Earth orbit.

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Delta TAD 417 And SYNCOM-C

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 64-Syncom-C7

9 August 1964

Complex 17-A. The Thrust Augmented Delta (TAD) which NASA will use to place the Synocom C spacecraft in orbit, is shown after mating and alignment of solid stage motors. This will be the first launch of the TAD. It was chosen for the S yncom mission because of its extra power necessary to boost the satellite into a 22,300 mile equatorial orbit over the Pacific Ocean.

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Delta TAD 417 And SYNCOM-C

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 64-Syncom-C7

9 August 1964

Same as the above photo with a U.S. 5 cent stamp Cancelled by the U.S. Post Office, Cape Canaveral on 19 August 1964. Just a few days after the photograph was taken.

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Delta TAD 417 SYNCOM-C Mating

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 64-Syncom-C8

9 August 1964

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Delta TAD 417 And SYNCOM-C #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 64-Syncom-C9

9 August 1964

Complex 17-A. The Thrust Augmented Delta (TAD) which NASA will use to place the Synocom C spacecraft in orbit, is shown after mating and alignment of solid stage motors. This will be the first launch of the TAD. It was chosen for the Syncom mission because of its extra power necessary to boost the satellite into a 22,300 mile equatorial orbit over the Pacific Ocean.

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Thor Delta 26 And Relay II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 102-KSC-64-6072

25 September 1964

A fine view from the gantry of the Thor Delta 26 as it is poised for launch at Pad 17A. This Delta configuration will carry the Relay II communications satellite into Earth orbit.

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Relay II Communications Satellite

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

USAF No. 64-Relay II-8

January 1964

Goddard Space Flight Centre - Relay II communications satellite undergoes vibration test prior to shipment to Cape Kennedy. The 172-pound spacecraft will be launched into Earth orbit by the Thor Delta 26 launch vehicle.

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Atlas Centaur AC-4 With Dummy Surveyor

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 101-KSC-64C-5743

11 December 1964

A wonderful view from behind the spotlight of the Atlas Centaur AC-4 sitting on the pad at Launch Complex 36A just prior to lift off.

AC-4 was to perform the first RL10A-3 restart in space. Centaur, which carried a 952 kg pound dummy Surveyor payload, performed a successful first burn to put itself into a 165 x 178 km x 30.7 degree geosynchronous transfer orbit. After a 25 minute coast, however, Centaur's engines failed to restart, preventing the stage from reaching its planned 160 x 8,000 km final orbit.

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Thor Delta C 411/D29 And OSO-B"

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 102-KSC-65PC-6

11 December 1964

Lift off from Launch Complex 17B of the Delta D29 with the Orbiting Solar Observatory B2 (S-17). The OSO-B2 returned solar X-ray, UV, gamma ray data as the Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere and outer space.

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Titan 3-C And Transtage

10 x 8 Colour Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. PL65-65507

18 June 1965

A fantastic view of the successful launch of this Titan 3-C with a dual payload of Transtage 5 & 7. Transtage is a lead balast spacecraft use for R&D flights to test Launch vehicle and Spacecraft in investigations of spaceflight techniques and related technology.

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AC-6 And Surveyor Model

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

11 August 1965

This Atlas Centaur LV-3C launch vehicle successfully launched A dummy Surveyor payload and placed it into a barycentric / translunar orbit.

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The NASA description on the back of this photograph is wrong. It give details of the GT-11 Atlas Agena launch.

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Explorer 29 GEOS-A

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 65-H-1561

6 November 1965

Explorer 29 designated GEOS-A the 385 pound spacecraft was launched into orbit by the Thor Delta E 457/D34 (TAD) launch vehicle on 6 November 1965.

The primary objective of GEOS-A was to provide global geodetic measurements for determining the positions of fiducial control points on the Earth to an accuracy of 10 meters in an Earth centre of mass co-ordinate system, and to determine the structure of the Earth's gravity field to 5 parts in 10 million. Instrumentation included (1) four optical beacons, (2) laser reflectors, (3) a radio range transponder, (4) Doppler beacons, and (5) a range and range rate transponder. These were designed to operate simultaneously to fulfil the objectives of locating observation points (geodetic control stations) in a three dimensional earth centre-of-mass co-ordinate system within 10 m of accuracy, of defining the structure of the earth's irregular gravitational field and refining the locations and magnitudes of the large gravity anomalies, and of comparing results of the various systems onboard the spacecraft to determine the most accurate and reliable system.

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Atlas Agena D 6703 (AA15) & The OAO-1

10 x 8 Colour Glossy NASA Photograph

8 April 1966

NASA launched its most advanced unmanned spacecraft from Cape Kennedy at 2:35 pm EST atop the modified Atlas Agena Launch Vehicle. The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory is the first in a series of four designed to give astronomers their first sustained look into the Universe from above the obscuring and distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere.

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Atlas Agena D 6703 (AA15) & The OAO

10 x 8 Colour Glossy NASA Photograph

8 April 1966

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OAO - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 70-H-1251

A fantastic artist rendering of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory in Earth Orbit. This fine rendering was created by Craig Kavafes of Grumman Aerospace Corp., Bethpage, New York.

There were to be 4 OAO's and the first was launched into orbit by the above Atlas Centaur SLV-3 Launch Vehicle. OAO-2 was launched from the Cape into geosynchronous transfer orbit by a Atlas Centaur SLV-3 launch Vehicle on 7 December 1968. The OAO-2 carried 11 telescopes; performed X-ray, UV, IR observations of stars and engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere and outer space.

OAO-3 Failed as its Shroud did not separate from the Atlas Centaur SLV-3 launch vehicle on 30 November 1970. (See August 1972 below for more details on the OAO-3 And OAO-4)

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AC-8 With Model Of Surveyor Spacecraft

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-441

8 April 1966

The Atlas Centaur LV-3C - AC-8 lifted off first from Launch Complex 36B on April 8, 1966, carrying Surveyor SD-3. The RL10A-3-3 engines successfully performed a 325 second first burn to put Centaur into a 175 x 344 km x 30.7 km parking orbit. Sadly, the planned 107 second Centaur second burn failed at the start when the more powerful ullage motors ran out of hydrogen peroxide fuel just before the end of the 25 minute parking orbit coast period. Had the burn succeeded, SD-3 would have been boosted to a 167 x 380,000 km orbit.

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AC-10 And Surveyor 1

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66PC-0113

30 May 1966

The Atlas-Centaur 10, carrying the Surveyor 1 spacecraft, lifting off from Pad 36A. The Surveyor 1 mission scouted the lunar surface for future Apollo manned lunar landing sites.

Landed 02 June 1966, 06:17:37 UT
Latitude 2.45 S, Longitude 316.79 E - Flamsteed P

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AC-10 And Surveyor 1 #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 101P-KSC-66P-243

30 May 1966

The Atlas-Centaur 10, carrying the Surveyor 1 spacecraft, lifting off from Pad 36A. The Surveyor 1 mission scouted the lunar surface for future Apollo manned lunar landing sites.

Landed 02 June 1966, 06:17:37 UT
Latitude 2.45 S, Longitude 316.79 E - Flamsteed P

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Lunar Surface Seen From Surveyor 1

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. SURVEYOR 1-6

2 June 1966

This photo of the lunar surface taken by Surveyor I on 2 June 1966, within a few hours after the spacecraft soft-landed near the moon's equator. A large rock appears at right. A number of small rocks are scattered about a small crater in upper centre of the photo. Bright spots at left of crater are reflections of the sun in the TV camera systems. This 600-scan-line picture was one of 144 TV photos taken by surveyor I during its first day of operation on the Moon.

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Lunar Surface Seen From Surveyor 1 #2

10 x 8 Black & White NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-587

2 June 1966

This 600-scan-line picture was one of 144 TV photos taken by surveyor I during its first day of operation on the Moon. In the lower right corner the television target mounted on leg #2 of the spacecraft shows definition capability of the Surveyor's camera. In upper right, the horizon is visible.

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Lunar Surface Seen From Surveyor 1 #3

10 x 8 Black & White NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-594

2 June 1966

The edge of the horison can be seen in the extream upper right corner of the Surveyor I picture of the lunar surface. Distance from the spacecraft to the curved horizon is about 4.5 miles. This 600-scan-line picture was one of 144 TV photos taken by surveyor I during its first day of operation on the Moon.

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Surveyor I: Surveyor 1 soft landed on the moon in the Ocean of Storms and began transmitting the first of more than 11,150 clear, detailed television pictures to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Facility, Goldstone, Calif. The landing sequence began 3,200 kilometres above the moon with the spacecraft travelling at a speed of 9,700 kilometres per hour. The spacecraft was successfully slowed to 5.6 kilometres per hour by the time it reached 4-meter altitude and then free-fell to the surface at 13 kilometres per hour. The landing was so precise that the three footpads touched the surface within 19 milliseconds of each other, and it confirmed that the lunar surface could support the LM. It was the first U.S. attempt to soft land on the moon.

1966 August 22 - Surveyor vernier engine to be fired after landing: MSC Director Robert R. Gilruth requested of Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director William H. Pickering that JPL fire the Surveyor spacecraft's vernier engine after the Surveyor landed on moon, to give insight into how much erosion could be expected from an LM landing. The LM descent engine was to operate until it was about one nozzle diameter from landing on the lunar surface; after the Surveyor landed, its engine would be about the same distance from the surface. Gilruth told Pickering that LaRC was testing a reaction control engine to establish surface shear pressure forces, surface pressures, and back pressure sources, and offered JPL that data when obtained.

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Thor Delta E1 467/D39 And A-IMP

10 x 8 Black & White Glossy Photograph

NASA No. 102P-KSC-66P-297

1 July 1966

The three-stage thrust-augmented Delta rocket was launched at 11:02 EST from Complex 17A at the Cape on 1 July 1966. Atop the launch vehicle was an Explorer Spacecraft (Explorer-33) called Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (A-IMP) planned for a seventy-two hour flight to the vicinity of the Moon. The A-IMP is the fourth in a series of seven interplanetary explorers planned to study interplanetary space phenomena in the vicinity of the Moon's orbit around the Earth.

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Thor Delta E1 467/D39 And A-IMP #2

10 x 8 Black & White Glossy Photograph

NASA No. 102P-KSC-66P-297

1 July 1966

Close up shot of the above photo.

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Atlas Agena D & Lunar Orbiter-A

10 x 8 Black & White Glossy Photograph

9 August 1966

NASA No. 122-KSC-66P-362

The Atlas Agena-D Launch Vehicle stands ready to boost the 850 pound Lunar Orbiter-A spacecraft to the vicinity of the Moon. The first in a series of 5 planned missions.

The Lunar Orbiter series took photos of lunar surface from selenocentric orbit. The lunar orbiter used a film scanning process taken from a classified program and returned high-resolution images of the surface back to Earth. These images were vital to planning of the subsequent Surveyor and Apollo lunar landings.

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Atlas Agena D & Lunar Orbiter-A Lift Off

10 x 8 Black & White Glossy Photograph

NASA No. 122P-KSC-66P-264

10 August 1966

The Atlas Agena-D Launch Vehicle lifts off boosting the 850 pound Lunar Orbiter-A spacecraft to the vicinity of the Moon. The first in a series of 5 planned missions.

This fine vintage glossy NASA photograph is in fair condition and someone was kind enough to affix a 175th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights stamp with a Cancellation from the Kennedy Space Centre on August 10, 1980.

1966 October 4 - Lunar Orbiter 1 results: MSC Director Robert R. Gilruth told Langley Research Centre Director Floyd Thompson, "Lunar Orbiter I has made significant contributions to the Apollo program and to lunar science in general. Details visible for the first time in Orbiter I photographs will certainly add to our knowledge of the lunar surface and improve our confidence in the success of the Apollo landing.

"Screening teams . . . are studying the photographs as they become available at the Lunar Orbiter Project Office, Langley Research Centre. Several promising areas for Apollo landing sites have been studied here in Houston by the screening teams and will be studied in more detail later. This preliminary study has already influenced the selection of sites to be photographed on the next Orbiter mission.

Lunar Orbiter 2

Lunar Orbiter II was launched 6 November 1966 at 6:21 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 13 at Cape Kennedy, to photograph possible landing sites on the moon for the Apollo program. The Atlas-Agena D booster placed the spacecraft in an earth-parking orbit and, after a 14-minute coast, injected it into its 94-hour trajectory toward the moon. A midcourse correction manoeuvre on November 8 increased the velocity from 3,051 to 3,133 kilometres per hour. At that time the spacecraft was 265,485 kilometres from the earth.

The spacecraft executed a de-boost manoeuvre at 3:26 p.m., November 10, while 352,370 kilometres from the earth and 1,260 kilometres from the moon and travelling at a speed of 5,028 kilometres per hour. The manoeuvre permitted the lunar gravitational field to pull the spacecraft into the planned initial orbit around the moon. On November 15, a micrometeoroid hit was detected by one of the 20 thin-walled pressurized sensors.

The spacecraft was transferred into its final close-in orbit around the moon at 5:58 p.m. November 15 and the photo-acquisition phase of Lunar Orbiter II's mission began November 18. Thirteen selected primary potential landing sites and a number of secondary sites were to be photographed. By the morning of November 25, the spacecraft had taken 208 of the 211 photographs planned and pictures of all 13 selected potential landing sites. It also made 205 attitude change manoeuvres and responded to 2,421 commands.

The status report of the Lunar Orbiter II mission as of November 28 indicated that the first phase of the photographic mission was completed when the final photo was taken on the afternoon of November 25. On November 26, the developing web was cut with a hot wire in response to a command from the earth. Failure to achieve the cut would have prevented the final readout of all 211 photos. Readout began immediately after the cut was made. One day early, December 6, the readout terminated when a transmitter failed, and three medium-resolution and two high-resolution photos of primary site 1 were lost. Full low-resolution coverage of the site had been provided, however, and other data continued to be transmitted. Three meteoroid hits had been detected.

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Moon Seen From Lunar Orbiter-II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. S-66-68711

November 1966

A fine shot of the lunar surface taken by the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft and transmitted to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, Calif., in November 1966.

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Copernicus Seen From Lunar Orbiter-II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-1470

30 November 1966

This is a portion of the first close-up photograph of the crater Copernicus, one of the most prominent features on the face of the Moon, taken at 7:05 p.m. EST 23 November 1966 by Lunar Orbiter II's telephoto lens. Looking north from the crater's southern rim, detail of the central part of Copernicus can be seen. Lunar Orbiter was 28.4 miles above the surface of the Moon and about 150 miles due south of the centre of Copernicus when the picture was taken. This photograph was transmitted from the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, Calif., on 28 November 1966.

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Copernicus Seen From Lunar Orbiter-II #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. S-66-68957

30 November 1966

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Actual Photo Sent From Lunar Orbiter-II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

30 November 1966

First close-up photograph of the crater Copernicus taken at 7:05 p.m. EST 23 November 1966 by Lunar Orbiter II's telephoto lens. The Lunar Orbiter was 28.4 miles above the surface of the Moon and about 150 miles due south of the centre of Copernicus when the picture was taken.

The two photographs above this one, 66-H-1470 & S-66-68957, are portions of this photograph that was transmitted from the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, Calif., on 28 November 1966.

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Actual Photo Sent From Lunar Orbiter-II #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

30 November 1966

This photograph was transmitted from the spacecraft to the Deep Space Network Station at Goldstone, Calif., on 28 November 1966.

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Lunar View From Lunar Orbiter-II

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-1634 - 14 December 1966

Photo Number: L-66-9892

Taken: 25 November 1966

A wonderful lunar view captured by the Lunar Orbiter II spacecraft. This photo is frame 213 Photo Number L-66-9891 in the series taken during this mission on 25 November 1966. The area seen is about as big as Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and shows an array of lunar domes.

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Lunar View From Lunar Orbiter-II #2

10 x 8 B/W Glossy NASA Photograph

NASA No. 66-H-1634 - 14 December 1966

Photo Number: L-66-9891

Taken: 25 November 1966

A wonderful enlargement from frame 213 (above photo) of the view captured by the Lunar Orbiter II spacecraft.

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