Touchdown, we have touchdown! At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the landers first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by []
Touchdown, we have touchdown! At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the landers first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by []
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