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Re: NASA Coverup

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From: Tom Nugent
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:32
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snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:

>    Ranger  6,  launched on January 30th 1964, allegedly had it's electrical
>   system burn out in flight and no pictures were sent.   Subsequent  Ranger
>   Probes  were  more  successful  .  

I thought that the reason Ranger 6 didn't send back pictures was because
they forgot to take off the 'lens cap' before launch.  Seriously.  That's
why they now have little red tags all over new probes etc. which say "Remove
before launch."  At least that's the story I heard from a JPL engineer.

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Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
Keywords: Earth-Moon Neutral Point Calculation
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