Viking Programme.- Three views of Viking I at White Sands Proving Ground and a view of Viking 4 lifting off from the deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Norton Sound, February 1949 - May 1950, vintage gelatin silver prints, versos with ink-stamps of the contractor The Glenn L. Marston Company, minor creasing, mostly to corners and margins; with a further group of three early rockets, c.210 x 250 mm (8 1/4 x 9 3/4 in), (7).

⁂ Often considered America's first space rocket, Viking was a smaller, lightweight development of the V2 using aluminium throughout.