NOVA; To the Moon; Footage of the moon, shots of Farouk El-Baz and James W. Head, part 1 of 3

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that because of this here right because that would have been a really interesting one right next to here but I'm not sure would have been a very safe landing yes that's why we moved west of the real because of that this idea was not good enough yeah they were really spectacular views yes absolutely incredible mission and it certainly proved to be the best place that could have been and then on to 17 this was the impressive part two another box canyon it was really great when he engineers finally decided to get fit that it lips in there I think we'd finally won the battle of engineers and scientists in operation absolutely terrific and they liked it afterwards they thrived on the fact that they could really sit this radar and fix it and go down above the mountain and climb down immediately and that was an incredible view I just remember that when Jack Schmidt looked back over the South Macief and you could see a gene and Jack you could see the earth and the earth rise and so on yeah absolutely spectacular yeah and these were some of the pictures of the most magnificent pictures we have from the whole of the whole program interesting thing was that the dark mantle just didn't turn out to be as dark as it looked like from orbit I mean you could certainly see it on the surface but I think we
all had this vision that it was really gonna be black totally black yeah but remember that when the any big camera takes a picture it is really just a difference between the brightness level of this and that yeah rather than it's intrinsic property that it is dark itself yeah and the processing of the images can usually do that where do I switch one was there so this is this is on 17 yep that's that that's the beautiful greater that Jack visited in fact I think that's Jack there yeah it's good to have a geologist yeah it was from here yes yeah yeah it's like seven little over seven kilometers the impressive
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Series
NOVA
Episode
To the Moon
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Footage of the moon, shots of Farouk El-Baz and James W. Head, part 1 of 3
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
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WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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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
B-Roll of the moon, and images of the moon. Ends with a conversation between James W. Head, Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University, and Farouk El-Baz, Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, on images of the lunar surface, and their memories of the science that went into obtaining those images during the Apollo program.
Created Date
1998
Asset type
Raw Footage
Genres
Interview
Topics
Technology
Science
History
Subjects
astronaut; American History; Gemini; moon; Space; apollo
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Moving Image
Duration
00:19:14
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
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WGBH
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Generation: Original
Duration: 0:19:15
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Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Footage of the moon, shots of Farouk El-Baz and James W. Head, part 1 of 3,” 1998, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 27, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-5q4rj49w3x.
MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Footage of the moon, shots of Farouk El-Baz and James W. Head, part 1 of 3.” 1998. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 27, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-5q4rj49w3x>.
APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Footage of the moon, shots of Farouk El-Baz and James W. Head, part 1 of 3. 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-15-5q4rj49w3x