NOVA; Interview with John Young, astronaut and engineer who served as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission, part 2 of 2 : To the Moon
Description:
John Young, astronaut and engineer who served acted as pilot and commander of multiple Gemini and Apollo missions, is interviewed about the early years of the Apollo program. Young describes the early experiments with Lunar Orbit Rendezvous and extravehicular activity (EVA), and talks about how Gene Cernan's EVA on Apollo 9 informed Young's EVA on Apollo 10. Young talks about the potential for a joint program between the Americans and Russians, and talks about his whereabouts during the Apollo 1 disaster, the spacecraft, and Gus Grissom. As the longest-serving astronaut, Young says he stayed in the program for so long out of a sense of discovery, and a belief that humans need to spread out. Footage ends with B-roll of John Young walking through a hallway, NASA, scientists looking at images of the moon. End of the video contains 3 minutes of audio only with interview material and room tone. 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.
