April 26, 1962 –
The NASA Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon after sixty-four hours of flight, on this date.
The probe’s mission was to rough-land a seismometer capsule on the Moon, to collect gamma-ray data in flight, to study the radar reflectivity of the lunar surface, and to continue testing the Ranger program for development of lunar and interplanetary spacecraft.
So now you know, (this may be on the test.)
