NEW U.S. PROBE
Photographs Of Moon (N.Z PA.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY (Florida), Aug. 10. Space officials today will make a second attempt to send America’s flying photographic laboratory round the moon after a technical fault and poor weather halted yesterday's blast-off. The 8501 b windmill-shaped probe Lunar Orbiter 1 is scheduled to start its 240.000mile voyage at 7.11 a.m. tomorrow.
If all goes well it will begin circling the moon about 90 hours later. Its mission is to return at least 176 pictures of nine specific targets along the moon’s equator where United States astronauts may land in less than two years from now. The pictures, taken only 28 miles above the surface, will be the first returned from a Lunar orbit and are expected to be the sharpest sent back from the moon.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 17
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