Smithsonian Ch. - America's Secret Space Heroes Series 1 (2017) Part 6 Viking Mars

Americas Secret Space Heroes Series 1

We all know Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Sally Ride, and other icons of America's space program. But behind the scenes, engineers have been the secret heroes, building the spacecraft and instruments that have helped man leave Earth and explore the stars. We reveal the inside stories of how these brilliant minds created such superior machines as the Saturn V moon rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble Space Telescope, often against incredible odds.

Part 6 Viking Mars

After the success of the first manned moon landing, NASA ups the stakes by aiming for a new destination tens of millions of miles away Mars. This is the inside story of Project Viking. Witness the overwhelming challenges engineers and scientists faced, not only to reach the Red Planet, but to land their spacecraft and deploy computer-operated experiments to answer the universal question Is there life beyond Earth?

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