Viking
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Aggressive people of Nordic extraction with a fondness for Spam.
Also, a NASA mission, consisting of two lander-orbiter pairs that visited the The Red Planet in 1976. They took lots of pretty pictures, and did a few experiments as to whether there was life on Mars or not.
Murder?
It is possible that the Viking landers may have more in common with their Nordic namesakes than at first believed. Dirk Schulze-Makuch presented his theory at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. He suggested that the probes were looking for the wrong type of life and inadvertently murdered (not sure if rape or pillage was involved) any life that may have been there[1].
"I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if billions of microbes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" - BMO[2]
Trivia
The ribbon cutting of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. was performed via remote signal from the then-in flight Viking 1 spacecraft.
Original images from the landers were processed to give the sky a blue tint, but this processing was wrong. The sky on Mars is actually purple, with yellow polka-dots.
