September 3
Posted in White History on Sep 3rd, 2011
1976 NASA’s Viking 2 spacecraft landed about 200 km west of the crater Mie at Utopia Planitia on Mars. The lander operated on the surface for 1281 sols (solar days on Mars) and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reached 304.331 miles per hour on the [...]