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Harrison Schmitt
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Harrison Schmitt |
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Born on: |
3 Jul 1935 |
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Join NASA in: |
28 Jun 1965 |
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Current status: |
Retired 30 Aug 1975 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Apollo 17 |
LMP |
07.12. - 19.12.1972 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Harrison Schmitt was selected
as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in June 1965. He later
completed a 53-week course in flight training at Williams
Air Force Base, Arizona. In addition to training for
future manned space flights. He was instrumental in
providing Apollo flight crews with detailed instruction in
lunar navigation, geology, and feature recognition.
Schmitt also assisted in the integration of scientific
activities into the Apollo lunar missions and participated
in research activities requiring geologic, petrographic,
and stratigraphic analyses of samples returned from the
moon by Apollo missions.
Schmitt was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in
June 1965. He later completed a 53-week course in flight
training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona. In addition
to training for future manned space flights. He was
instrumental in providing Apollo flight crews with
detailed instruction in lunar navigation, geology, and
feature recognition. Schmitt also assisted in the
integration of scientific activities into the Apollo lunar
missions and participated in research activities requiring
geologic, petrographic, and stratigraphic analyses of
samples returned from the moon by Apollo missions.
He was backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 15.
On his first journey into space, Schmitt occupied the
lunar module pilot seat for Apollo 17 -- the last
scheduled manned Apollo mission to the United States --which
commenced at 11:33 p.m. (CST), December 6, 1972, and
concluded on December 19, 1972. He was accompanied on the
voyage of the command module "America" and the lunar
module "Challanger" by Eugene Cernan (spacecraft commander)
and Ronald Evans (command module pilot). In maneuvering "Challenger"
to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, which is located on the
southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis, Schmitt and Cernan
activated a base of operations facilitating their
completion of three days of exploration. This last Apollo
mission to the moon for the United States broke several
records set by previous flights and include: longest
manned lunar landing flight (301 hours, 51 minutes);
longest lunar surface extravehicular activities (22 hours,
4 minutes); largest lunar sample return (an estimated 115
Kg, 249 lbs); and longest time in lunar orbit (147 hours,
48 minutes). Apollo 17 ended with a splashdown in the
Pacific Ocean approximately 0.4 mile from the target point
and 4.3 miles from the prime recovery ship, USS
TICONDEROGA.
Harrison Schmitt logged 301 hours and 51 minutes in space
-- of which 22 hours and 4 minutes were spent in
extravehicular activity on the lunar surface.
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