SOFT LANDING
It looks like NASA's Mars Pathfinder will be able to land safely in the Red Planet's Ares Vallis region on the fourth of July, 1997, following a series of successful tests of its soft-landing apparatus. The parachutes, solid-fuel retro rockets and air bags that will slow the probe from its post...
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