DESTINATION MOON: A History of the Lunar Orbiter Program

This book is a history of the Lunar Orbiter Program documenting the origins of the program and recording the activity of the missions. Lunar Orbiter brought several new departures in U.S. efforts to explore the Moon before landing men there. It was the first big deep space project for Langley Research Center. It came into being in 1963 after the Ranger and Surveyor Programs were well along in their development and at a time when the data it could acquire would be timely to Apollo.

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