Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Ranger misions to the moon took place in the early 1960's and were unmanned satellites that approached and eventually crashed into the moon, all the time sending back video images until their destruction. I saw a Ranger spacecraft and, if I remeber correctly, it had Schneider optics. The later unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon and took pictures etc., were the Surveyor spacecraft. I don't know what optics they used. Mike Swiek