On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Alphonsus Peak
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) American
Not on view
The Ranger program, nicknamed "Shoot and Hope," was the first of three crewless reconnaissance programs deployed by NASA to photograph the moon in preparation for the crewed Apollo landings. The probes carried television cameras programmed to record and beam back still images of the lunar surface during the final moments of flight before crashing into the moon. Of the nine Rangers launched between 1961 and 1965, only the last three succeeded, but the images they returned were one thousand times more detailed than those obtained with the best earthbound telescopes.
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