27 November 1971
Mars 2 Landing
Mars 2 reaches Mars and its lander becomes the first human-made object to impact the planet.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Mars in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Mars 2 reaches Mars and its lander becomes the first human-made object to impact the planet.
Mars 3 achieves the first soft landing on Mars before contact is quickly lost.
Provenance
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