NASA engineer sitting at a control console at Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Flight Operations Facility, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1964 Part 1

Inside Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Space Flight Operations Facility, a mission control engineer is seen sitting at his station monitoring the launch of NASA's Atlas-Agena D rocket. The rocket carries space probe Ranger 7, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1964. Ranger 7 was the first NASA space probe to successfully transmit close-up images of the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program. Launched on July 28, 1964, Ranger 7 was designed to achieve a lunar-impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact.