STEAM Second with the Viking Lander and STEM in 30

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Channel: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum · 2016 · Education

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Beth Wilson, host of STEM in 30, shares a STEAM Second with the Viking Lander. These spacecraft landed on Mars in 1976, the same year the National Air and Space Museum opened. 

Did you know that a signal sent from Mars triggered the mechanism that cut the ribbon opening the museum to the public?

Find more STEM in 30: airandspace.si.edu/stemin30

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