Labels:text | screenshot OCR: SPACE EXPLORATION LUNAR LANDINGS OVERVIEW FIRST ORBIT TOUCHDOWN QUEST MOON RESEARCH LUNAR LANDINGS 3 NEW FRONTIERS SHUTTLE MISSIONS Saturn: the view from the probe Voyager 2 3: PROBING THE UNIVERSE The 1970s saw the launch of probes to explore the solar system and beyond. In 1976 Viking 1 landed on Mars after an 11-month journey. U.S. probes Voyagers 1 and 2 relayed pictures as they passed Saturn in 1980 and 1981, and detected new moons around Uranus and Neptune. CHRONOLOGY . NEWSFLASH ..