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TL;DR: NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, which landed on Mars in 1975, aimed to test for life using water-based methods.

Firming up plans to go to Mars would be fine, so long as it is not done at the expense of returning to the moon.

NASA may have unintentionally destroyed potential life on Mars during the Viking missions in the 1970s, according to Dirk ...