\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> First successful Ranger mission; the spacecraft returns thousands of close-up TV images of the lunar surface before crashlanding on Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds) about 15 km from aim point; also successful are the identical Ranger 8 (launched February 17, 1965, which lands on Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity); and Ranger 9 (launched March 21, 1965), which lands near crater Alphonsus.