Human colonization may still be a way off, but NASA has been exploring Mars with a series of ever-larger mobile science labs. Some are still going.
Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...
It was America’s bicentennial, July 4, 1976, and NASA was hoping not to see fireworks. After a 10-month traverse through space, the Viking 1 lander was ready to become the first spacecraft to operate ...