Ranger 7 Launch
Launch of the Ranger 7, (also called Ranger B), lunar probe aboard an Atlas-Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral on July 28th, 1964. Ranger 7 was put on an impact trajectory with the Moon. Its six television cameras were activated on July 31st, less than 20 minutes before impact. Before crashing, Ranger 7 was able to transmit 4308 photographs of the Moon's surface. The Atlas-Agena D rocket was a development of a military intercontinental ballistic missile.
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