Ranger 4 and Saturn Rocket Hit The Moon

The United States spacecraft Ranger 4, designed to transmit pictures of the lunar surface to Earth, was launched in April 1962.

An onboard computer failure caused failure of the deployment of the solar panels and navigation systems and the spacecraft crashed on the far side of the Moon without returning any scientific data.

Two days later a Saturn rocket, designed to send Apollo missions to the Moon and back, was launched from Cape Canaveral.

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