Viking 1 enters Mars orbit
Date as reported
Viking 1 entered orbit to prepare for its landing and study Mars.
- Category
- Mission Operations and Milestones
- Type
- Orbit insertion
- Mission
- Viking 1
- Programme
- Viking
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Destination
- planet
- Target body
- Mars
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA NSSDCA — Viking (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.