Ranger 3: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
Above link is for a 60's spacecraft program called Ranger. Ranger missions crashed into the moon while making live television transmissions toward the end. Idea being that even "standard definition" TV (I don't have frame rates and resolutions for this yet) was superior to the earth-based telescopic observations of the day.
Now, Ranger 3 carried a "hard lander" built of -- get this -- ordinary balsa wood.
I am going to have to check this out.
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