This film is made by pupils at Newman School, which is a special school for students with physical disabilities and medical conditions, based in Rotherham. This film is part of NASA's digital learning network and features a live video conference between pupils at Newman School and NASA experts. Title - Newman school represented the UK at an international video conference. Title - Nasa's 50th Birthday Party. Title - Subject was the Viking mission to Mars. The film opens with a shot...

This film is made by pupils at Newman School, which is a special school for students with physical disabilities and medical conditions, based in Rotherham. This film is part of NASA's digital learning network and features a live video conference between pupils at Newman School and NASA experts. Title - Newman school represented the UK at an international video conference. Title - Nasa's 50th Birthday Party. Title - Subject was the Viking mission to Mars. The film opens with a shot of a presenter introducing a NASA engineer. The action then cuts to a studio in the Langley Space centre USA. Title - Langley Space centre USA. Two presenters introduce themselves: one is the manager of the NASA's Digital Network, while the other is an expert on the Viking mission. The presenter then remarks that this is a live webcast, "So there is probably a pretty large international audience watching this". He then introduces the first school, Newman School, who are connected via webcam. Title - Newman school. Two students are then shown in the classroom, and a male pupil in a wheelchair wears a Viking helmet. The student says hello to the presenters, and ask if they can see and hear him. The presenter then asks them where is Rotherham? Another student answers, stating it is in South Yorkshire. They then ask the expert several questions about the possibility of one day living on Mars, to which he replies that the chances are unlikely due the number of differences between the planets, specifically sighting ultra violet radiation as a major problem. The students of Newman school then ask whether it is possible to get Mars faster than the Viking mission, which took eleven months. The expert says no, unless more efficient rockets fuels emerge. The presenters then thank the schools for their questions and says goodbye. Title - NASA digital learning network.