Description
Adam Savage attempts to identify five mysterious space artifacts from the National Air and Space Museum’s collection.
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In this episode of On Air, Museum experts challenge Adam to examine a variety of objects, analyze their design, and use evidence. Can his engineering knowledge help him solve these mysteries?
Discover the stories behind a blink comparator like the one used to discover Pluto, NASA’s Stardust mission, the Viking Mars lander’s weather station, a plasma-wave instrument, and an Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engine injector plate recovered from the ocean floor.
Middle school science teachers can use this video to introduce:
🔎 Observation, evidence, and scientific inference
🔭 Astronomy and planetary science
🛰️ Spacecraft engineering and mission design
☄️ Mars exploration and comet research
🚀 Apollo 11 and the history of spaceflight
Pause before each reveal and invite your students to study the clues, develop a hypothesis, and see whether they can identify the artifact before Adam does.
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🎥Credits🎞️
Featuring
Adam Savage
Beth Wilson
Production Team
Callan Beideman
Elizabeth Kollmar
Calista Cruikshank
Jon Boyette
Bella Masters
Chris Givan
Paul Griffith
Marty Kelsey
Victoria Orozco
Special Thanks
Shauna Edson
Erika Novak
Alison Wood
Beth Crownover
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00:00 Introduction
00:13 Adam’s Thought Process
01:08 Object #1
02:19 Object #2
04:02 Object #3
06:00 Object #4
07:09 Object #5
08:01 Conclusion