RANGER.
Collection of approximately 60 volumes, documents, or dossiers related to Ranger missions, many being rare internally-circulated items from JPL or contractors, including: series of nine original press releases, October 14, 1962; manuscript material and test results for the Ranger TV system and Bulova Accutron Watch Vibration Test, March 14-27, 1963; "Results of PTM Calibration Tests," June 22-29, 1963, with 31 photographs of the active test screen; 7 photographs taken June 18, 1964 using 8-inch reflecting telescope and Kintel closed circuit TV in JPL parking lot; JPL Technical Reports 32-700 and 32-800, "Experimenters' Analyses and Interpretations"; NASA Special Publications 61, 62, 63, 111, 112, and 4210; "Ranger TV Subsystem (Block III) Final Report" prepared by RCA, 5 volumes; Shoemaker and Moore, "Telescopic Visibility of Ejecta Produced By Impact of Ranger-3," January 18, 1962, with Shoemaker's manuscript notes; Smalley and Ronca, "Structures Inside a Lunar Crater Photographed By Ranger VII." For a full listing, please download the condition report for this lot from bonhams.com/20830.
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