Tag: Viking Lander
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50 years after Viking landed on Mars, Lockheed Martin plans for next steps to Red Planet
Fifty years ago Monday, NASA launched what became the first successful Mars lander, starting a race to land people on the Red Planet. NASA hopes to have humans walking on the Martian surface soon, possibly as early as the 2030s. What started on July 20, 1976, with the first successful landing on another planet kick-started…