NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, part 3 of 5
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-v11vd6qg4z
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- Description
- Program Description
- This remarkably crafted program covers the full range of participants in the Apollo project, from the scientists and engineers who promoted bold ideas about the nature of the Moon and how to get there, to the young geologists who chose the landing sites and helped train the crews, to the astronauts who actually went - not once or twice, but six times, each to a more demanding and interesting location on the Moon's surface. "To The Moon" includes unprecedented footage, rare interviews, and presents a magnificent overview of the history of man and the Moon. To the Moon aired as NOVA episode 2610 in 1999.
- Raw Footage Description
- Gene Kranz, former NASA Flight Director, is interviewed about the Apollo 11, 12, and 13 missions, and his role during each. Kranz talks about his feelings during the lunar landing during Apollo 11, and talks about the tense moments that occurred, including the program alarms and fuel issues, and mentions his speech to the flight controllers before the astronauts fully landed. The Apollo 12 landing site was touched by some controversy, and Kranz talks about the miracle of leadership that took place during the launch issues during Apollo 12. Kraft then explains why the crisis that occurred during Apollo 13 was never simulated for in training, because the issues were so critical that it was not deemed likely to occur. Had the crisis taken place during the Apollo 8 mission, Kranz believes that the astronauts would have died for lack of a lunar module. Kranz ends by explaining his feelings during the tensest moments of the Apollo 13 mission and explains the details of solving the problems.
- Created Date
- 1998-00-00
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Genres
- Interview
- Topics
- History
- Technology
- Science
- Subjects
- American History; Gemini; apollo; moon; Space; astronaut
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:22:35
- Credits
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Interviewee: Kranz, Eugene "Gene", 1933-
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 52054 (barcode)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:22:35
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Identifier: cpb-aacip-15-v11vd6qg4z.mp4 (mediainfo)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:22:35
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, part 3 of 5,” 1998-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 23, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v11vd6qg4z.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, part 3 of 5.” 1998-00-00. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 23, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v11vd6qg4z>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, part 3 of 5. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-v11vd6qg4z