Posts Tagged ‘Mars3’

Destination Mars – Zoomable Map showing all missions

You could be forgiven for thinking that the 1975 probes Viking 1 and Viking 2 were the first missions to successful make it to Mars. In truth, the first attempts were made by the Soviet Union as early as 1960. There were 17 attempts prior to the first successful landing. The Russians got there first in 1971 when the Mars 3 lander successfully [...]