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Mars and the History of Antacids

Posted by michael on from the fizz-fizz dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA's retrospective today on the 1976 Mars Viking mission describes the first probe to orbit another planet, and the first biology experiments based on soil sampling. Program managers maintained a dynamic 'worry list', which included a 1970's computer that opened like a wireframe book. The all-important biology experiments could not be tested prior to launch, then lightning struck the probe components (at Kennedy's Explosive Safe Area Building)."

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. F@#$ your mom last night by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    don't ever rob TROLLKORE (tm) of FP again FAGGIT

  2. What do "antacids" have to do with anything? by defile · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe I'm just dense.