"We were lucky to get the money to do Viking, and that was a struggle." The mission concept was scaled back to two orbiters and two landers, launching on smaller rockets and designed to stay on ...

A Viking rocket (body by Glenn L. Martin Co. propulsion by Reaction Motors, Inc.) had been launched from its deck to an altitude of 106.4 miles. This is only a few miles short of the record for ...

Viking Therapeutics stock has already tripled in 2024, but Wall Street analysts think it has more room to run. Viking Therapeutics' lead candidate is an experimental weight management treatment ...

Viking 2 took its ride into space on a Titan rocket on Sept. 9, 1975, following in the footsteps of its twin, Viking 1. There was a hair-raising few minutes during launch when all data from the ...

For this "Mars + Phobos/Deimos landing" mission, the Orbiter would fire its rocket to place itself and the Viking Lander into an elliptical equatorial capture orbit about Mars requiring 97 hours ...

A close look at the historical record reveals that it was the lesser known Viking—originally built strictly as a “sounding rocket” for upper atmospheric research—that was the world’s ...

Within months, he, Krause and other colleagues began to design and develop the multistage Viking rockets. The high-altitude rockets, which were launched between 1949 and 1955, helped demonstrate ...

Shares of Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage drugmaker working on metabolic treatments, have tripled in value this year. Despite the huge run-up, analysts who follow the company ...