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    In this issue: * Lunar Orbiter * Educational Television in Net ek taht accep aves ares conrad Wash lunar orbiter man’s unmanned exploration of the moon Where on the suiflace of the Moon can our Astronauts find a landing site not laced with deep erevices OF jagged rocks? How lang can théy stityive when exposed to the Moon’s fadiation and micrometeoroid’ bombardment? How accurate are oli present calctilations OF-size, shape and gravitational field of he Moon? These questions ahdimany others must Be aliswered before man can/Balely land and move about on the surface of the Moon. The lwibar Orbiter project of the National. Aeronautics and Spacé Administration is one OF three unmanned progiams set up provide this vital information, eC Roca d Peer eR oer Prercn ena ‘One astronomer has said scene reais) of study of the Moo eet ma age eerarenay me et a ecu Pc Mate Pee eer aa 1X, gave us our first closeup Perens 2 in detail, Although the Ranger erence eee eek Braces Soe Sec tai Pee ear SPACECRAFT LAUNCH PREPARATION WAIT IN INITIAL PORTRAIT OF TYPICAL LUNAR ORBITER MISSION Maehersee pee wocounss suupticn. Opeit estas Snes roared es “4 TRAJECTORY gg T= MIDCOURSE AGENA CORRECTION egtastisH *: im Sebatarion ag ESTABLISHES ORBIT PHOTOGRAPH’ EARTH OFOIT gf LUNAR SURFACE. Ragu Dann FO boi NOSE-sHROUO SEPARATION ® ATLAS ‘SEPARATION ATLAS BOOSTER SEPARATION oe LAUNCH VEHICLE ASSEMBLY LAUNCH count VEHICLE DOWN fh TRACKING LAUNCH AFETR 28 'miles from the Moon atthe closest point, LUNAR ORBITER: A Flying Photographic Lab Scouts the Surface. Following the success of Ranger and Surveyor, the Lunar Orbiter is provi (OF large specitic areas of the lunae surface. ‘As evidenced by its inital photographs, many large ateas of the Moan may be too rough 10 accommodate a manned landing. The Apollo ing extensive photographic coverage nar Module has a limited landing and man. euvering capability so thatthe finalsite (and rearby allermates)- must be selected. before jaunch, Lunar Orbiter assignments have been to seek ateas large enough, flat enough, and smooth enough for a manned landing Lunar Orbiter | was launched in’ August 1968. In the following 77 days it made 32) orbits and exposed 295 feet of film during 12 ‘days of photography giving us our first de tailed knowledge of large areas of the Moon, including our fist pictures of the back side To eliminate any possible reco interference between it and the follow-on missions, the Orbiter | was commanded to crash land c the back side of the Moon in October 1966 Then, in November of 1966, Lunar Orbiter I further delimited the possible landing areas f covered more than 1.5 million square miles rot covered by Orbiter I, including, 15,000, The 50 miles a the fart ‘SPACECRAFT CONTROL. TRACKING COMMAND TRANSMISSION BATA RECORDING PHOTO RECONSTRUCTION GOLOSTONE PHOTO MagAID ReagseweLy, REASSEMBLED Dara ANALrsis PHOTOS, wission DATA SuerontINs contro TABES LUNAR DATA MISSION DATA emer ihe eroeesdi an 7 TELETVoE Telenee NASA 4 VOICE. 8 VOICE... inal photographic orbit places the spacers miles in the Apollo landing zone. By mid March 1967, it had made 650 orbits and by careful tacking from the earth, continues t0 aid scientific understanding ofthe lunar grav tational field, On the basis of the first two missions, Orbiter It photographed 12 specific areas to make a final selection of where the Sstronauts will and ‘Surface detail of the Moon from the Orbiter program is comparable to the very limited Sampling area taken by the Surveyor after landing. Both are far better than we ean ob- tain from the earth, Maximum photographic resolution with earth based telescones is on the order of 2500 feot, which means that we . cannot recognize an object less than one-half mile in diameter. Even enlarging these tele scopic photographs luton, It would only result in an unvecogni2 able blur In contrast, each Lunar Orbiter provides mote than 200 high resolution photographs With a resolution down to 3 feet. This mes Wwe can pick out details as small as a ible Bester the ih vtluon pues, Ohare, a NASH tay ly Wide angle or mediim resolution pictures sapling pictures fom the una Ori LUNAR ORBITER Il ASSIGNMENTS: Affirming Apollo Landing Sites “The first assignment of Lunar Orbiter Ill was to Confiem the suitability of a series of rranned landing sites, From data collected by Lunar Orbiter | and Il, scientists of NASA and the US. Geological Survey have concluded that 1d fo be the best can five areas ae

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