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Launch of Viking 1 on Titan 3 Centaur rocket. August 20 1975

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-lus10-00002

Date

2006-10-18

Viking 1 was launched by a Titan/Centaur rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:22 p.m. EDT to begin a half-billion mile, 11-month journey through space to explore Mars. The 4-ton spacecraft went into orbit around the red planet in mid-1976.