Word: schmitt
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...white, coarse-grained "Genesis rock"-which may be a fragment of the moon's original 4.6 billion-year-old crust. Indeed, the scientific dividends from Apollo 15 were proving to be so great that NASA announced that it was giving a berth to astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on the final scheduled moon voyage, Apollo 17, next year. Thus, he will become the first scientist to walk the moon...
...Tumble. To Egyptian-born Geologist Farouk El Baz, who helped train the astronauts, the layering meant that the rille was not created by the collapse of a single lava tube, as some lunar scientists have suggested, but by a number of separate lava flows. Not so, said Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a professional geologist himself and a member of Apollo 15's back-up crew. He insisted that the rille could just as well have been the result of faulting, or cracking, of the moon's surface as it cooled...
...LOIS J. SCHMITT...
...Work is to give glory to God," Schmitt said. "It involves human virtue and establishes one's place in society...
...Schmitt said that Opus Dei doctrine differs from the Protestant work ethic in that it "stresses the need for attention to virtue while working, rather than the virtue of work for success's sake...