July 20 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest robotic spaceflight achievements in NASA’s history: the landing of the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars. It was the first […] The post Lessons for the future of NASA Mars exploration from a 1970s mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
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