NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, part 4 of 4

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Series
NOVA
Episode
To the Moon
Raw Footage
Interview with Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, part 4 of 4
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
AAPB ID
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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
Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, is interviewed about the later missions in the Apollo program. Lunney believes that a mixture of human ability and God's help saved the crew of the Apollo 13, and talks about the evolution of the Apollo program in terms of its geological content. Lunney explains why he wanted his flight controllers to understand geology and do geological training, and talks about his lack of disappointment in the mission reductions after Apollo 17 because of his work on other projects and the plateau of the enthusiasm for Apollo. Lunney ends by explaining the phrase "wine before its time" and how the space program fit the period of the 1960s.
Created Date
1998
Asset type
Raw Footage
Genres
Interview
Topics
History
Technology
Science
Subjects
American History; Gemini; apollo; moon; Space; astronaut
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:10:16
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-8d1ad2f2e6b (Filename)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:10:16
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Citations
Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, part 4 of 4 ,” 1998, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 18, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-930ns0n18f.
MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, part 4 of 4 .” 1998. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 18, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-930ns0n18f>.
APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Glynn Lunney, NASA engineer and flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, part 4 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-15-930ns0n18f