NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Alan Binder, Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, part 2 of 4
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Alan Binder, Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, part 2 of 4
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-2f7jq0tw23
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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
- Alan Binder, former Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission is interviewed about his job. Binder describes his work with various institutions and institutes to get a spacecraft designed for the Lunar Prospector Mission, and explains the objectives of the mission. Binder talks about the potential to discover water on the moon and the potential for colonization of the moon if water is found, although the water on the moon is probably in the polar regions or is trapped beneath the surface. Ideally, Binder would have a rover and then a man on the moon, and says that humans, and not robots, are necessary to building an infrastructure on the moon for colonization. Binder ends by explaining the technology of searching for water on the moon and talking about his hopes of returning men to the moon, although attempts to go to the moon were starting over the work of the 1950s and 1960s. The final minutes of the interview are audio-only of a discussion with Robin M. Canup (ID "barcode52077_Canup_01") on the discovery of other Earths and other forms of life in space, and from the Mission Control operations.
- 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
- 00:29:04
- Credits
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Interviewee: Binder, Alan
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 52099 (barcode)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:22:43
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Alan Binder, Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, part 2 of 4 ,” 1998-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 6, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2f7jq0tw23.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Alan Binder, Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, part 2 of 4 .” 1998-00-00. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 6, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-2f7jq0tw23>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Alan Binder, Principal Investigator of NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, part 2 of 4 . 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-15-2f7jq0tw23