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By the arrival of 1966 both the Americans and the Soviets had hit the moon. The dazzling close-up photographs returned by Ranger had given the public something more tangible than Luna 3’s blurry and indistinct far-side photos, and America was riding tall in the saddle again. But the critical goal was still up for grabs. A probe had to soft-land on the moon to determine if a manned craft could survive.
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Reeves, R. (1994). Exploring the Moon. In: The Superpower Space Race. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5986-7_4
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