Landing Sequence

Image credit: North American
Image source: Mike Acs

LEM by Gary Meyer

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

Ascent Stage

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

Źiemba and Collopy

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

Lunar Liftoff

Space World, November 1964

Image credit: Bell Aerosystems
Image source: Numbers Station

Viking by Russ Arasmith

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

Viking

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Mike Acs

A Laboratory on Mars

Prime goal of Project Viking is this National Aeronautics and Space Administration sketch, to land a biological laboratory on the surface of Mars. The picture shows a design in which the protective housing around the experiments unfolds in petal fashion once the laboratory is safely on the Martian surface.

Project Viking: Space Conquest Beyond the Moon

by Irwin Stambler
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970

Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station