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OP Webmaster Launch Director Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 678,976 Los Angeles, USA	Lessons for the future of NASA Mars exploration from a 1970s mission 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. https://spacenews.com/lessons-for-the-future-of-nasa-mars-exploration-from-a-1970s-mission/