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==Peanuts tradition==
[[File:LUCKYPEANUTS.jpg|thumb|[[Linda Spilker]] explains the tradition of lucky peanuts at a gathering for Cassini mission team members, family and friends in Von Karman Auditorium at JPL, 2017]]
There is a tradition at JPL to eat "good luck [[peanut]]s" before critical mission events, such as orbital insertions or landings. As the story goes, after the [[Ranger program]] had experienced failure after failure during the 1960s, the first successful Ranger mission to impact the Moon occurred after a JPL staff member had decided to pass out peanuts to relieve tension. The staff jokingly decided that the peanuts must have been a good luck charm, and the tradition persisted.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3081033 |title=NPR All Things Considered interview referring to peanuts tradition |newspaper=NPR.org |access-date=January 3, 2009 |archive-date=February 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221142625/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3081033 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.planetary.org/blog/ustream_log_20080525.html |title=Planetary Society chat log for Phoenix referring to peanuts tradition |access-date=January 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121040948/https://www.planetary.org/blog/ustream_log_20080525.html |archive-date=November 21, 2008}}</ref>