Lander Preservation Guidelines

LFEM - STEP encourages collaboration in its activities, such as this display of the Viking Lander Flight Capsule #3, FC3 lander body.

Guidelines and requirements for the preservation and exhibition of the Viking FC3 Lander include the following. It will:

• be displayed as part of a collaborative program between LFEM - STEP and the Astronautics/Aeronautics and Electrical Engineering Departments
• be controlled by a Viking FC3 Lander trust for its preservation and display
• the trust will be developed by members Jim Tillman, Rachel Tillman MacClarence, Adam Bruckner, Howard Chizeck and Bruce Darling
• it will be chaired by Jim Tillman
• others will be invited to be board members
• it will continue to be displayed in Electrical Engineering building for the forseeable future with the possibility of its temporarily residing at some other LFEM - STEP supporting or collaborating venue
• it will never be sold, exchanged or gifted.
• it will be augmented by antenna and Meteorology Boom hardware (Jim Tillman), Meteorology Sensor Assembly model (Chris Vancil), and Viking Descent engine models (Eckart Schmidt) and
• will not be modified/enhanced significantly beyond its initial LFEM - STEP presentation.
• credits will be provided for contributors, participants, partners and volunteers.
• ancillary items and resources, such as web, will augment, describe and illustrate:
  • The Viking Mission,
  • The significance of the Viking Meteorology investigation in its contributions to understanding the Meteorology and Climate of Mars and Earth,
  • The UW Viking Computer Facility role in Meteorology and pioneering low cost, landed, Mars Mission operations
  • The LFEM - STEP program
• As the person responsible for initiating my saving the lander and associated spacecraft components from being sold for scrap, Rachel Tillman will have the option of ribbon cutting as she did at its original installation

Clarified 3 March, 2003 JET; slight revisions 27 Jan., 2004 JET