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On This Day in Space! Jan 30, 1964: Ranger 6 launches to the moon

On This Day in Space! Jan. 30, 1964: Ranger 6 launches to the moon Space 30/01/2021 © Provided by Space An artist s illustration of a NASA Ranger spacecraft at the moon. On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of the moon, but the cameras failed, and no images were ever returned.  This was the sixth mission failure for the Ranger program. Congress wasn t too happy with the series of failures and called an investigation into management problems at NASA Headquarters and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The next mission, Ranger 7, launched six months later and was a roaring success. 

On This Day in Space! Jan 27, 1967: Apollo 1 fire kills NASA astronauts

On This Day in Space! Jan. 27, 1967: Apollo 1 fire kills NASA astronauts Space 27/01/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space Apollo 1 astronauts (left to right) Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee posing in front of Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. All three were killed when a fire blazed up in their capsule during a ground test on Jan. 27, 1967. On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed during a routine preflight rehearsal at NASA s Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 1 fire was the first major deadly disaster in the history of the U.S. space program. 

On This Day in Space! Jan 23, 1942: NASA s Glenn Research Center is founded

On This Day in Space! Jan. 23, 1942: NASA s Glenn Research Center is founded Space 1/23/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space An aerial view of NASA s Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio. Happy birthday, Glenn Research Center!  On January 23, 1942, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) founded the Aircraft Engine Laboratory, which was renamed Lewis Research Center after NASA was established in 1958.  It was renamed again in 1999 as the Glenn Research Center. The facility was named after John Glenn, an astronaut who became the first American to orbit the Earth. The center is located near Cleveland, Ohio and is used as a laboratory to develop new technologies for aircraft engines and spacecraft propulsion systems. 

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