{"id":494,"date":"2010-09-09T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=494"},"modified":"2010-09-09T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T10:24:50","slug":"viking-2-and-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/viking-2-and-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking-2, and Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-five years ago today — September 9, 1975 — the Viking-2 orbiter and lander were launched on their way to Mars by a Titan-IIIE booster out of Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n

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\n(First color image of Utopia Planitia taken by the Viking-2 lander. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe first Viking<\/a> lander had been launched a few weeks earlier, as noted in this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Viking-2 landed about a year after launch at Utopia Planitia. Fans of many Star Trek<\/em> iterations will recognize Utopia Planitia as the place starships are built — with facilities on planet and in orbit above. For more information on the science fictional Utopia Planitia Shipyard, try this Memory Alpha page<\/a> or this starship guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty-five years ago today — September 9, 1975 — the Viking-2 orbiter and lander were launched on their way to Mars by a Titan-IIIE booster out of Cape Canaveral. (First color image of Utopia Planitia taken by the Viking-2 lander. NASA image.) The first Viking lander had been launched a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,85,11,24],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-launch","tag-mars","tag-space-history","tag-titan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}