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>The Soviet Union landed a rover on Mars almost 30 years before NASA. The Mars 3 landed on Mars in 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3 https://en.wikip
by floxy 1y ago
>The Soviet Union landed a rover on Mars almost 30 years before NASA.
The Mars 3 landed on Mars in 1971:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3
The NASA Viking program landed on Mars in 1976:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program
...but I guess that didn't rove.
- lupusreal 1y agoRight, NASA's first remote controlled rover (anywhere) was Sojourner in 1997. The first successful remote controlled rover was the Soviet Lunokhod 1 in 1970. That succeeded in driving around the Moon for almost a year. Mars 3 didn't pan out but I still think that level of ambition from the Soviet Union, relative to NASA, is notable and worth celebrating.
- FredPret 1y agoAstronaut Chris Hadfield wrote a fun book involving Lunokhod: The Apollo Murders.