Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Friday, September 09, 2011
Viking!
Our first lander on Mars. It is interesting to note that Viking 1 and Viking 2 (orbiters and landers) firmly stepped into the tradition of having a probe last well beyond the stated time of operations.
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