On March 24, 1965, a nationwide TV Audience watched live video from Ranger 9 as it purposefully crashed into the moon within the crater Alphonsus. Ranger’s six cameras sent back more than 5,800 video images during the last 18 minutes of its 3-day journey, the last of the Ranger Project. The last few images show the lunar surface in detail from a few hundred meters above: http://go.nasa.gov/2e0r8eK
