NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12, part 2 of 2
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12, part 2 of 2
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-sx6445js87
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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
- Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12 is interviewed about the Apollo 12 mission. Conrad describes the mission's liftoff problems and his identification of the fact that the spacecraft had been hit by lightning. Apollo 12 also had difficulties in landing on the moon, partly because of changes to the calculations in finding their location. Conrad had made a bet with someone about whether or not the astronauts' words were scripted by NASA or the US Government, so he pre-arranged what he would say upon landing on the moon, but never got the payoff. He describes his thoughts on the scientist-astronauts and the astronauts' quarantine after returning to the moon, and the accomplishments of Apollo, despite the program ending too soon. The interview ends with Conrad's explanation of his work today in "space services" for commercial space travel.
- 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
- 00:22:09
- Credits
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Interviewee: Conrad, Charles "Pete", 1930-1999
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-a0a838a057e (Filename)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:22:10
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12, part 2 of 2 ,” 1998, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 11, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-sx6445js87.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12, part 2 of 2 .” 1998. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 11, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-sx6445js87>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., astronaut, engineer, and Commander on Apollo 12, part 2 of 2 . 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-sx6445js87