Focal points: Television performance of ranger 7 compensates for previous disappointments

The six-camera television system of the Ranger 7 spacecraft was designed to provide a series of close-up views of the moon´s terrain to assist in finding a landing site for future Apollo manned lunar missions. With the brilliant history-making success of the Ranger mission on July 31, the designers´ hopes luminously materialized and a close-up glimpse of the moon´s surface was brought to the living rooms of the world.