Thirty years ago — July 20, 1976 — NASA’s Viking 1 became the first spacecraft to land on Mars and send back detailed pictures of the surface. The Vikings paved the way for NASA’s Mars exploration ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding ...
When NASA's Viking 1 lander made history as the first spacecraft to touch down on Mars on July 20, 1976, it sent back images of a landscape no one was expecting. When NASA's Viking 1 lander made ...
DENVER, CO., July 20, 2006 — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Viking 1 mission to Mars captured the world’s imagination 30 years ago when the first U.S. spacecraft to ever ...