Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Hagan Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon. In December 1972, as one of the crew on board Apollo 17, Schmitt became the first member of NASA's first scientist-astronaut group to fly in space. As Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions, he also became the twelfth and second-youngest person to set foot on the Moon and the second-to-last person to step off of the Moon (he boarded the Lunar Module shortly before commander Eugene Cernan). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harrison Schmitt has received more than 1,497,887 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Harrison Schmitt is the 17th most popular astronaut (up from 18th in 2019), the 1,305th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,170th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Astronaut.

Harrison Schmitt is most famous for being the twelfth man to walk on the moon.