Word: schmitt
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...short time later, Schmitt will probably be seen carrying off the familiar dumbbell-shaped package of scientific gear called ALSEP (for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package). At a site some 300 ft. west of Challenger, Geologist Schmitt, with Cernan's help, will set up the five ALSEP experiments, giving space scientists their fifth automatic observatory on the moon (see Lunar Science, page 44). The ALSEP experiment that the scientists are particularly eager to monitor involves two probes that measure the flow of heat from the moon's interior. During Apollo 16, that $1,200,000 experiment was ruined...
After buckling themselves into the rover the astronauts will continue their first EVA by driving southeast for about one mile to the edge of a 2,000-ft.-wide crater called Emory. It is here that Schmitt hopes to recover fine-grained dark material, called pyroclastics (literally, broken up by fire), which may be a sign of relatively recent volcanic eruptions. If Schmitt's trained eye happens to spot any interesting material between scheduled stops, he will be able to pick it up without leaving his seat in the rover; at hand will be an extension pole with...
...Apollo program is one of the milestones in the history of scientific exploration, they have been precluded from participating directly in it. Now, confident of the Apollo landing techniques perfected by the military pilots on previous missions, NASA has chosen a handsome 37-year-old geologist named Harrison ("Jack") Schmitt to be copilot of Apollo 17. If all goes well, Schmitt next week will take a historic step: he will become the first scientist from earth to walk on another world...
...Schmitt's preparation began long before Apollo was conceived. The son of a mining geologist, he grew up in Silver City, N. Mex., and decided early in life to become a geologist himself. As a youngster he visited mining camps, explored Indian reservations and made rock-hunting forays into the lunar-like deserts of the Southwest. At Caltech he studied under Ian Campbell and other noted earth scientists, including some of the men who will be watching his every move over TV from Mission Control's science support room...
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