PIA23520: Ranger 7 in SAF's High Bay 1
 Mission:  Ranger 
 Spacecraft:  Ranger 7
 Product Size:  1820 x 2280 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Primary Data Set:  RANGER_PAGE
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23520.tif (12.45 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23520.jpg (555.1 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Engineers stand with Ranger 7 on Dec. 10, 1963, in High Bay 1, located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ranger 7 was the first U.S. mission to transmit images from the surface of the Moon. The Ranger program included a series of robotic spacecraft launched at the Moon. JPL developed the art of spacecraft assembly and testing with each iteration of the Ranger spacecraft.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-12-23