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Gerald Soffen, who led the Viking science team that in 1976 performed the first experiments on the surface of Mars, died Nov. 22 in Washington of a heart ailment. He was 74. Soffen was a driving force in NASA's search for life elsewhere in the universe and was instrumental in the establishment of...
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