Viking, Card No 44 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)

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The Race Into Space (Brooke Bond, 1971)

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Card No. 44: Viking

1975

The most advanced American unmanned spacecraft for which firm plans exist is Viking, designed to soft-land instruments on Mars to test whether life exists there.

Two 8,000-pound Vikings will be launched on the seven-month journey in 1975. Near Mars each will detach a 1,200-pound capsule which will be commanded to enter the Martian atmosphere.

Slowed by atmospheric braking and retro-rockets, they will soft-land and extend aerials and mechanical scoops. Soil samples will be examined for biological traces and the data transmitted to Earth.


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