[meteorite-list] harrison "jack"schmidt

[Thomas Randall - KB2SMS]

Hi Walter and list,
  I met and got Lovell's autograph when I was 14, he was grand marshall
at an opening of city hall in Poughkeepsie,N.Y.

Man was it great! He even broguht a moon rock encases in a half dome
thing. 

Here's the sad part, I ended up putting the autograph in an Apollo
pamphlet I got from KSC and gave the extra copies away to someone and
the autograph was in one of the copies. I used to send to KSC all the
time for Apollo stuff and they'd send back big envelopes full of 8x10's,
Apollo literature,etc. I had TONS of the stuff. 

I didn't wash my hand for weeks!

Regards and happy holidays to all. 

Tom Randall


On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 19:50, Walter Branch wrote:
> Hello Steve and List,
> 
> Harrison "Jack" Schmitt was the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17.  He was
> actually the only trained scientist (geologist) to land on the moon and had
> to learn to fly to become an astronaut.  Schmitt bumped Joe Allen, who was
> the original Apollo 17 LMP, when the scientific community complained that no
> trained scientest had landed on and studied the moon.  Allen later flew the
> space shuttle.
> 
> Here is perhaps the most famous picture from the Apollo 17 flight:
> 
> http://www.branchmeteorites.com/misc/schmitt.jpg
> 
> Apollo 17 was our last manned flight to the moon and brought back 243 lbs of
> moon rocks.
> 
> -Walter