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rang·er / ˈrānjər/ • n. 1. a keeper of a park, forest, or area of countryside. 2. a member of a body of armed men, in particular: ∎  a mounted soldier. ∎  a commando or highly trained infantryman.3. a person or thing that wanders or ranges over a particular area or domain: rangers of the mountains.

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Rang·er / ˈrānjər/ a series of nine American moon probes launched between 1961 and 1965, the last three of which took many photographs before crashing into the moon.

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Ranger A series of NASA lunar missions, which ran from 1964 to 1965, sending instruments to the surface.

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