1964: RANGER REVEALS MOON'S SECRETS The Ranger Seven is launched from Cape Kennedy in one of the most successful shoots of the Moon age. Equipped with cameras designed to send back more than 4;000 pictures; the Ranger made the three-day; 240;000-mile trip without a hitch and photographed the Moon in detail such as man has never observed before. Thus; the United States was carried across new thresholds in space and brought closer to a landing on the Moon.