Sujet

Model, Lunar Probe, Ranger. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Model, Lunar Probe, Ranger. This is a 1/24th scale model of Ranger 1 and 2, the spacecraft series that sought to gather knowledge about the Moon in the first yearsof the space age, and which gave scientists their first close look at the lunar surface. Rangers 1 and 2 were test missions in Earth orbit, although neither of them were successful in 1959 and 1960. Later versions of this spacecraft, Rangers 7, 8, and 9, were successful in the middle part of the 1960s in reaching the Moon and returning imagery of its surface. Those pictures revealed details that could not be seen through telescopes on Earth. Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A88_485

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,6Mo (1,4Mo) / 31,7cm x 41,7cm / 3739 x 4920 (300dpi)

Mots clés

education country model space science solar system astronomy color moon lunar location century spacecraft space travel NASA Sixties United States of America Colour Smithsonian Institution prototype 1960s National Air and Space Museum Educational Institution 20th century air and space museum Jet Propulsion Laboratory American America USA scientific institution object united states unmanned space probe Unknown National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Heritage Art NASM MODELS-Unmanned Spacecraft & Parts Metal Plastic Paper Adhesive Paint Ranger 1