posted 07-08-2016 10:42 AM               

Public Lecture: 40th Anniversary of Viking Landings on Mars

Join us for a series of presentations at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton, Virginia, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Viking landings on Mars.

Open to the public. Admission is free.

In this special Sigma Series lecture, a panel of experts will discuss the historic Viking mission.

• Bill Barry, moderator, NASA Chief Historian
  
• Roger Launius, Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  
• Erik Conway, Historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  
• Glenn Bugos, Historian, NASA’s Ames Research Center

A 2 p.m. version of the same panel discussion will be streamed live.