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People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White

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Description:Chapters: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term. He is the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lunar Module first. However, as Schmitt re-entered the module first, Cernan became the last astronaut to walk on and depart the moon. Schmitt is also the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969. Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City. He received a B.S. degree in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway. He received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964, based on his geological field studies in Norway. Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA. Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor. Schmitt collects lunar specimens during the Apollo 17 missionBefore joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he 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 spent his first year at Air Force UPT learning to become a jet pilot. Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he playe...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1379We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White. To get started finding People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
26
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1158584008

People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White

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Description: Chapters: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term. He is the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lunar Module first. However, as Schmitt re-entered the module first, Cernan became the last astronaut to walk on and depart the moon. Schmitt is also the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969. Born in Santa Rita, New Mexico, Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City. He received a B.S. degree in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway. He received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964, based on his geological field studies in Norway. Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA. Eugene Cernan is visible reflected in Schmitt's helmet visor. Schmitt collects lunar specimens during the Apollo 17 missionBefore joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he 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 spent his first year at Air Force UPT learning to become a jet pilot. Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he playe...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1379We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White. To get started finding People from Grant County, New Mexico: Harrison Schmitt, Paul Benedict, William B. Walton, William Harrell Nellis, Rudy White, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
26
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158584008

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