Viking 1 orbiter and lander, NASA’s first successful Mars soft-landing mission, with cameras and biology experiments. Titan IIIE/Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-41 lofted the stack; the lander reached Chryse Planitia on 20 July 1976 as the first U.S. craft on Mars.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Titan IIIE flights
- Date and time
- 20 August 1975, 21:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIE
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1975-075
- Launches in 1975
- 79th of 132
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