Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, born July 3, 1935 in Santa Rita, New Mexico, flew to the moon on Apollo 17, becoming the twelfth person to walk on the moon. He received his PhD in geology from Harvard University in 1964.
He was assigned to be the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17, with Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans. He is the second to last person to have walked on the moon.
He resigned from NASA in 1975 to seek election to the U. S. Senate for New Mexico and won in 1976.
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