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Harrison "Jack" Schmitt
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Harrison "Jack" Schmitt (born 1935) is a geologist, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico, and NASA astronaut who served as lunar module pilot on Apollo 17 (December 1972), becoming the only professional scientist to walk on the Moon. He appears in the archive in connection with the Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing (NASA-UAP-D6), which documented light flashes and a lunar surface observation reported during the mission.