USA: AMERICA'S UNMANNED 'VIKING' SPACE MISSION STARTS FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR LANDINGS ON MARS.

Record ID: 1061508

  • Title: USA: AMERICA'S UNMANNED 'VIKING' SPACE MISSION STARTS FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR LANDINGS ON MARS.
  • Date: 7th April 1976
  • Summary: 1. LV Mars (animation) 0.03 2. (Animation) CU Viking I and Viking II going to Mars 0.13 3. Animation of Viking landing 0.18 4. CU Viking II circling planet (3 shots) 0.30 5. CU Dr. Carl Sagan speaking. 1.33 SOF STARTS: "I think the one thing..... SOF ENDS:....of life are possible" 6. GV SV CU control room with people working (5 shots) 1.42 7. CU SV computer room and operator 1.49 8. GV Control room 1.50 SAGAN: "I think the one thing that is very likely is that if Mars does have life, it will be a life very different from the sort we have here. All the life on Earth is the same kind of life. On the outside, we think we are pretty different. The oak trees, and the petunias and the bears and the people we have the sense they are different kinds of organisms. But we're not. On the inside we are all the same. We use the same kind of biochemical molecules. What we do not know is whether those are the only kinds of molecules that can make biology go or whether there is a vast variety of possible biologies of which ours is only a single case. Since you do not have enough time to let life evolve in the laboratory, the only way to test such questions is to go somewhere else and see what natural experiments nature has done for us on the surface of another planet. That's to my mind one of the most exciting aspects of the exploration of Mars, the opportunity to find out what other kinds of life are possible." Initials RH/1822 RH/JB/PNG/1836 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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