1976

Campaign Timeline

• NASA’s Viking 1 probe makes the first successful “soft landing” on another planet in the Sol System. It will be the first of many such missions over the following decades.

• Water is discovered to have existed on the surface of the planet Mars in the distant past by the Viking 2 lander. This supports the notion that human life can be supported on other planets besides Earth in the Sol System.

• The space shuttle Enterprise, NASA’s first reusable spacecraft, is flown for the first time. It is a test bed for other shuttles to follow and will never go into space itself.

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20th century 1970s

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