Ribbon cutting ceremony for National Air and Space Museum (NASM), with President Gerald Ford and Michael Collins, former astronaut and NASM director. The ribbon cutting was performed by a replica of the mechanical arm of the Viking lander, which was sent a signal by the actual Viking I spacecraft from a Mars orbit.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: August 1976, Image No. 76-8428-15
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