![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.](https://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/3a1-670x380.jpg)
Early Lunar Missions: A Memoir
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By J.D. Burke When the world changed with Sputnik on October 4, 1957, we at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) were jubilant.
By J.D. Burke When the world changed with Sputnik on October 4, 1957, we at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) were jubilant.