Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Schmitt's famous photograph of Earth taken from Apollo 17 as he travelled to the moon. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a geologist, astronaut, and senator. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Geology from Harvard University in 1964. He was a member of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and thereby the first and only geologist to land on the moon. Harrison served as a United States Senator, representing New Mexico. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.