After taking more than 7,000 high resolution images of the Moon, Ranger 8 successfully impacted the Sea of Tranquility 60 years ago today. Images from the Ranger program helped us select landing sites for Apollo. NASA's Ranger program: https://go.nasa.gov/42WwpyE | NASA History

The Junior Ranger Program is a unique way to teach our kids about nature, science, and history while making memories they'll never forget. Every RV stop becomes a classroom without walls, and every badge is proof that learning can be FUN! Find out how your family can turn the road into a journey of discovery: https://bit.ly/4lGUY8r Featured Ambassador: @sebas_and_sara Featured RV: @thormotorcoach Twist | THOR Industries, Inc.

Ranger 9 was a Lunar probe, launched in 1965 by NASA. It was designed to achieve a lunar impact #Space #astronomy #nasa | Josh Universe

Did you know ? NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft on the moon. Ranger 9 was part of NASA’s Ranger program, a series of missions in the 1960s aimed at getting close-up images of the Moon before the Apollo landings. #Ranger9,#NASA,#Moon,#LunarMission,#SpaceHistory,#ApolloPrep,#MoonCraters,#SpacePhotography,#SpaceExploration,#1960sNASA,#LunarLanding,#MoonSurface,#Astronomy,#Cosmos,#SpaceScience,#SpaceTech,#NASAHistory,#MoonImages,#Craters,#LunarRocks,#SpaceImpact,#MoonCrash,#Spacecraft,#SpaceMi

Some people get shy around the camera, not Junior Ranger Eli. I think if a love for plants isn’t in your future career, maybe entertainment is! Love seeing young ones benefiting from our program, and I’m so excited we’re expanding to 61 projects right across the country! | Senator Malarndirri McCarthy - Northern Territory

On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of the moon, but the cameras failed, and no images were ever returned. This was the sixth mission failure for the Ranger program. Congress wasn't too happy with the series of failures and called an investigation into management problems at NASA Headquarters and the Jet Propulsion La