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Harrison "Jack" Schmitt
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Dr. Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt, born July 3, 1935, in Santa Rita, New Mexico, is a geologist, astronaut and former U.S. senator. He is the twelfth person to walk on the Moon; to date he and his crewmate Eugene Andrew Cernan are the last two to walk there.
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 HERO...8x10 & 16x20 In military parlance, this is known as a "hero" picture. Harrison Schmitt stands before the flag, lunar rover and lunar lander in the splendor ...more |
 SPLIT ROCK...8x10 only So called because you could walk through its break in the middle. Schmitt stands on one side, the rover parked up the hill. The rock has rolled ...more |
 BOULDER...8x10 only Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt stands in the shadow of a giant boulder, with the lunar rover parked in the foreground. Schmitt signs in silver in ...more |
 WSS...8x10 only The official WSS (white space suit) portrait of Apollo 17's geologist-astronaut, the first scientist on the moo ...more |
 FLAG & EARTH...8x10 only Apollo 17 mission commander Gene Cernan had to put his camera between his knees for this sho ...more |
Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, "Jack" Schmitt worked at the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, Arizona, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews. Following his selection, Schmitt played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface. After each of the landing missions, he participated in the examination and evaluation of the returned lunar samples and helped the crews with the scientific aspects of their mission reports.
Because Schmitt was the only geologist in the astronaut corps and, as well, had spent considerable time becoming proficient in the CSM and LM systems, it came as no surprise when, in March 1970, he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to receive a crew assignment. He joined Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (Commander) and Vance Brand (Command Module Pilot) on the backup crew for Apollo 15 and was clearly in line to fly as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 18.
After the cancellation of the Apollo 18 moon mission (not to be confused with the Apollo 18 name later assigned to Apollo-Soyuz [2] in September 1970, many people expected that he would be assigned to fly on Apollo 17, the last lunar mission. That assignment was announced in August 1971. During the Apollo 17 flight, Schmitt probably took a photograph of the Earth called The Blue Marble, one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence (NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew, and Schmitt claims that he personally took the image.)
As he returned to the Apollo Lunar Module before his crewmate Gene Cernan, Schmitt is the second to the last person to have set foot on the moon's surface. After the completion of Apollo 17, Schmitt played an active role in documenting the Apollo geologic results and also took on the task of organizing NASA's Energy Program Office.
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