1969
Humans walk on the Moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module in the Sea of Tranquility and stepped onto the Moon, the first humans ever to walk on another world. Hundreds of millions watched from home.
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1976
The first successful landing on Mars
NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down safely on Mars and began returning the first pictures from its surface. It was humanity's first successful soft landing on the red planet.
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