Lunar Impact
Lunar Impact

Author: R. Cargill Hall

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0486477576

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America's first successful attempt at robotic lunar exploration, the nine Project Ranger missions culminated in close-up television images of the moon's surface. Sponsored by NASA and executed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, the project ran from 1959 to 1965. This official NASA publication, illustrated by more than 100 photographs, presents the program's complete history.

Lunar Impact
Lunar Impact

Author: R. Cargill Hall

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0486139719

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America's first successful attempt at unmanned lunar exploration, Project Ranger culminated in close-up television images of the moon's surface. Sponsored by NASA and executed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, the project ran from 1959 to 1965 and produced management techniques, flight operating procedures, and technology employed by later space missions. This official NASA publication presents the complete history of the nine Project Ranger missions. Author R. Cargill Hall, the historian of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, offers an authoritative account of the evolution and operations of the continuing program of unmanned exploration of deep space. More than 100 photographs depict key personnel and illustrate rockets and a range of other equipment. Nine helpful appendixes feature a fascinating array of source documents.

Lunar Sourcebook
Lunar Sourcebook

Author: Grant Heiken

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1991-04-26

Total Pages: 796

ISBN-13: 9780521334440

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The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them
Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them

Author: Brian Cudnik

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1441903240

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The genesis of modern searches for observable meteoritic phenomena on the Moon is the paper by Lincoln La Paz in Popular Astronomy magazine in 1938. In it he argued that the absence of observed fashes of meteoritic impacts on the Moon might be interpreted to mean that these bodies are destroyed as luminous meteors in an extremely rarefed lunar atmosphere. The paper suggested the possibility of systematic searches for such possible lunar meteors. With these concepts in mind, I was surprised to note a transient moving bright speck on the Moon on July 10, 1941. It appeared to behave very much as a lunar meteor would – except that the poorly estimated duration would lead to a strongly hyperbolic heliocentric velocity. Thus, the idea of systematic searches for both p- sible lunar meteors and meteoritic impact fashes was born. It was appreciated that much time might need to be expended to achieve any positive results. Systematic searches were carried out by others and myself chiefy in the years 1945–1965 and became a regular program at the newly founded Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, or ALPO.

Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters
Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters

Author: David Hurd

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13:

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The phases bring the Moon to life and highlight the complex moonscape of hills and ridges and dark and light areas. This book is designed to give you the basics about the craters that are found on the Moon.

Parameter Study of Insertion Conditions for Lunar Missions Including Various Trajectory Considerations
Parameter Study of Insertion Conditions for Lunar Missions Including Various Trajectory Considerations

Author: Carl R. Huss

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13:

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A parameter study of lunar ballistic trajectories was made by using the restricted two-body orbit equations and assuming that a sphere of influence exists about the earth and about the moon such that the attraction of each body on the vehicle can be treated separately. The results of the study are summarized in the form of charts from which approximate insertion conditions (velocity, radius vector or altitude, flight-path angle, and lead angle or firing time) can be selected for specific lunar missions. Data are included on conditions at perilune, requirements for return to earth, and trip times.

Exploring the Moon
Exploring the Moon

Author: David M. Harland

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-04-16

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 0387746412

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In this comprehensive overview of Man’s relationship with his planet’s nearest neighbor, David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 and the final three missions of comprehensive geological investigations. He concludes with a review of the robotic spacecraft that made remote-sensing observations of the Moon. This Commemorative Edition includes a foreword by one of the original astronauts as well as an extra section reviewing the prospect of renewed exploration there. New graphics and images are also included.