DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar impactor
State: Successful
Place: Moon
Operator: NASA
Instruments: 1) Television camera,
Date
Start:
Duration: 2.73 days
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Atlas LV-3 Agena-B 199D/AA8
Kind: NASA
Manufacturer: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mass: 381 kilograms (840 lb)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, LC-12
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
Place: Lunar
Ranger 6 was a lunar probe in the Ranger program, a robotic spacecraft series launched by NASA in the early and mid-1960s to obtain the first close-up images of the Moon's surface. It was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras - two wide-angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and four narrow-angle (channel P) - to accomplish these objectives. The cameras were arranged in two separate chains, or channels, each self-contained with separate power supplies, timers, and transmitters so as to afford the greatest reliability and probability of obtaining high-quality television pictures. No other experiments were carried on the spacecraft. Due to a failure of the camera system, no images were returned.
