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Ranger provides Moon clues
Dr William K Hartmann and Professor H Jay Melosh describe early 1960s, pre-Apollo 11 theories of the Moon's origins. The first fresh insights came from the Ranger missions, probes intentionally crashed into the Moon looking for Apollo landing sites.
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