Harrison Hagan Jack Schmitt (born July 3 1935) is an American geologist a retired NASA astronaut university professor and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.Schmitt was the first of NASA’s first scientist astronaut group to fly in space on the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. He was the twelfth and last man to set foot on the Moon. As of 2013 he is the only professional geologist to visit the Moon.
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active years end date
1983-01-03
active years start date
1977-01-03
alma mater
California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Oslo
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