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Harrison Schmitt
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Joseph Montoya
- Succeeded by
- Jeff Bingaman
- Born
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt , ( 1935-07-03 ) July 3, 1935 (age 90) , Santa Rita, New Mexico , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Teresa Fitzgibbon
- Education
- California Institute of Technology ( BS ) University of Oslo (attended) Harvard University ( MS , PhD )
- Awards
- NASA Distinguished Service Medal , G. K. Gilbert Award (1988)
- Time in space
- 12d 13h 52m
- Selection
- NASA Group 4 (1965)
- Total evas
- 3 on the lunar surface
- Total eva time
- 22h 3m
- Missions
- Apollo 17
- Retirement
- August 30, 1975
- Fields
- Geology
- Institutions
- U.S. Geological Survey University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Thesis
- Petrology and Structure of the Eiksundsdal Eclogite Complex, Hareidland, Sunnmøre, Norway (1964)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 4
- Family name
- Schmitt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santa Rita
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- United States senator
- Educated at
- University of Oslo
- Employer
- NASA
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Schmitt Covered with Lunar Dirt - GPN-2000-001124.jpg
- Work location
- New Mexico
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- Harrison H. Schmitt
- date of birth
- 1935-07-03
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- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- name in native language
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- time in space
- 18112
- P10632
- Harrison Schmitt
- member of the crew of
- Apollo 17
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Encyclopedic overview
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
In December 1972, as a crewmember of Apollo 17, Schmitt became the first member of NASA's first scientist-astronaut group to fly in space. As Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions, he also became the twelfth and second-youngest person to walk on the Moon and the second-to-last person to step off the Moon (he boarded the Lunar Module shortly before commander Eugene Cernan). Schmitt also remains the only professional scientist to have landed on the Moon. Before training for Apollo 17, he was influential in the geology field for supporting the Apollo program and had helped train Apollo astronauts chosen to visit the lunar surface.
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