
Scientist of the Day
Harris "Bud" Schurmeier
JULY 28, 2015
The Ranger 7 spacecraft was launched July 28, 1964. The project manager, Bud Schurmeier, was under the gun. The first 6 Ranger spacecraft had been failures. The mission of Ranger was to crash into the moon, taking pictures all the way down, to provide high-resolution...




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