SCIENTIST LEAVES
Will Watch Ranger VIII (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. A few hours before he flew from Auckland tonight for San Francisco and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s centre in Pasadena, the space scientist, Dr. W. Pickering, said: “I can’t wait to get back.” Dr. Pickering was anxious to be at the N.A.S.A. jet propulsion laboratories, of which he is director, before the American spaceship Ranger VIII reaches its moon target at 10 p.m. New Zealand time tomorrow. The New Zealand-born physicist has been revisiting this country for the last two weeks, calling at the universities, addressing the Science Congress and meeting New Zealand scientists. He has had to cut short his visit because of the Ranger space shot. At his last New Zealand lecture at Victoria University, Wellington, today, Dr. Pickering said the last 15 minutes before a space vehicle struck the moon were the most crucial moments in the 68-hour journey from the earth.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30681, 22 February 1965, Page 16
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