40 Years After Viking’s Mars Mission, Impact Still Being Felt

LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – Lockheed Martin is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Viking lander.
Viking 1 was the first spacecraft to land on Mars, and it has influenced almost every mission to the red planet since.
“They were going to a place no one had ever been before, through an atmosphere and environment that no one had ever sampled or understood,” said Tim Priser, deputy manager for the Mars InSight lander, the next scheduled mission to Mars.
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