NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Leon "Lee" Silver, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, and Gordon Swann at Sunset Crater, part 2 of 2
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Leon "Lee" Silver, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, and Gordon Swann at Sunset Crater, part 2 of 2
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-wm13n21w7x
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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
- Leon "Lee" Silver, W.M. Keck Foundation Professor for Resource Geology, emeritus, at Caltech; Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt, geologist, astronaut, and Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17; and Dr. Gordon Swann, geologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS), and Principal Investigator for the Apollo 13 field geology team, are interviewed about training the astronauts of the Apollo program. Silver tells the story of Jim Lovell's discovery of a Paiute pot during a training exercise, and Jack Schmitt talks about finding a similar pot, and the two discuss the ways that everybody in the group educated each other in different parts of the program. The two discuss the coloration of the soil samples found on Apollo 17, and talk about the wisdom of appointing Jim Lovell as the CapCom to the back room. Footage also includes some shots of Silver and Schmitt discussing the discovery of orange soil and their experiences with the crater and working in the back room. Silver is interviewed about his thoughts on Apollo and the importance of sending people to the moon. Gordon Swann joins them and talks about his experience in training the astronauts in geology, and describes the creation of the Sunset Crater and Cinder Lake. The interview ends with Schmitt's discussion of the things that were learned from the orange soil discovered on the Apollo 17 mission, and contains some audio from the B-Roll sequences.
- 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
- 00:24:47
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Speaker: Silver, Leon "Lee" Theodore, 1925-
Speaker: Schmitt, Harrison "Jack", 1935-
Speaker: Swann, Gordon, 1931-2014
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-170a80a1212 (Filename)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:24:27
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Leon "Lee" Silver, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, and Gordon Swann at Sunset Crater, part 2 of 2 ,” 1998, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 10, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wm13n21w7x.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Leon "Lee" Silver, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, and Gordon Swann at Sunset Crater, part 2 of 2 .” 1998. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 10, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wm13n21w7x>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Leon "Lee" Silver, Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, and Gordon Swann at Sunset Crater, 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-wm13n21w7x