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Harrison Schmitt
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Harrison Schmitt (born 1935) is an American geologist, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico, and NASA astronaut who served as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17 in December 1972, becoming one of only twelve people to walk on the Moon. He appears in the archive in the Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript and the Apollo 17 science crew debriefing concerning an anomalous ultraviolet spectrum observation.