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Dedicated in May 1964, the new Space Flight Operations Facility used state-of-the-art equipment for mission operations and communications with JPL’s unmanned spacecraft. One of the first missions to use the facility was Ranger 7.

Early Lunar Missions: A Memoir

September 1, 2008 // by J.D. Burke

By J.D. Burke When the world changed with Sputnik on October 4, 1957, we at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) were jubilant.