University of Nevada, Reno recently issued the following announcement.
On December 11th, 1972, Apollo 17 crew members landed on the Moon's surface. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt stepped out of the lunar Lander challenger in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, near Camelot Crater. 49 years later, no other person has eclipsed their accomplishments and no one else has set foot on the Moon since then.
However, Schmitt and all those excited by the idea of space travel and exploration are looking forward to that fact changing very soon. With NASA preparing to return astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2025, commercial space travel becoming a reality and plans to study exoplanets across the galaxy, a new era of space exploration is just over the horizon.
Discover Science: Harrison Schmitt on his trip to the Moon
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt discusses his three days on the lunar surface, the exciting geological discoveries that he made as the only true scientist to have set foot on the Moon and his thoughts on the future of space exploration.
This episode of Discover Science was recorded at the Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center. Plan your visit today!
This episode of Discover Science welcomes Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. The podcast hosts are Paul McFarlane, director of the Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, and Wendy Calvin, the Daniel A. and Edith E. O'Keefe Professor for the Mackay School. Calvin is also a University Foundation Professor, a member of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover science team and has studied planets and moons for much of her career. The three discuss Schmitt's three days on the lunar surface, the exciting geological discoveries that he made as the only true scientist to have set foot on the Moon and his thoughts on the future of space exploration.
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