NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Seymour "Sy" Liebergot, NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, part 2 of 3
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Seymour "Sy" Liebergot, NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, part 2 of 3
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-q52f767j6g
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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
- Sy Liebergot, retired NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, is interviewed about various Apollo missions. He describes the mission systems of Apollo 7, and the tension within the Mission Operation Control Rooms (MOCR) during Apollo 11 and describes Gene Kranz and Chris Kraft's roles during the mission. Liebergot also describes his limited interactions with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11, and describes his view of the astronauts as pilots instead of engineers. Liebergot describes how John Aaron saved Apollo 12 from aborting its mission after it lost display information because of battery fuel loss and a lightning strike, which Aaron was able to successfully fix by having the astronauts flip some switches. The tape ends with a discussion of Apollo 13 and why they had not prepared for that level of failure during training because of the unprecedented nature of the failure, and each crew member's ability to respond to the crisis.
- 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
- 00:22:33
- Credits
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Interviewee: Liebergot, Seymour "Sy", 1936-
Interviewee: Liebergot, Seymour "Sy", 1936-
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-f1cef4a5e74 (Filename)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:22:33
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Seymour "Sy" Liebergot, NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, part 2 of 3 ,” 1998, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 29, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-q52f767j6g.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Seymour "Sy" Liebergot, NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, part 2 of 3 .” 1998. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 29, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-q52f767j6g>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Seymour "Sy" Liebergot, NASA flight controller during the Apollo program, part 2 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-q52f767j6g