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jeff bingaman yes schmitt image = harrison schmitt.jpg type = nasa astronaut american name occupation = geologist selection = 1965 scientist group time = = 12d 13h 52m mission = apollo 17 insignia = 40px harrison apollo 17 insignia retirement = august 30 , 1975 awards hagan = 20px nasa distinguished service medal schmitt othername = jack santa rita , new mexico , usa 180px united states senator republican january 3 , 1983 joseph montoya 3 july 1935 january 3 , 1977 teresa fitzgibbon sen harrison schmitt.jpg harrison schmitt
 new mexico harrison hagan schmitt nowrap caltech university of oslo harvard
harrison schmitt

harrison hagan `` jack '' schmitt -lrb- born july 3 , 1935 -rrb- is an american geologist , retired nasa astronaut , university professor and former u.s. senator from new mexico .
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 person to set foot on the moon , and , the second-to-last person to step off of the moon -lrb- he boarded the lunar module shortly before commander eugene cernan -rrb- .
schmitt also remains the first and only professional scientist to have flown beyond low earth orbit and to have visited the moon .
he was influential within the community of geologists supporting the apollo program and , before starting his own preparations for an apollo mission , had been one of the scientists training those apollo astronauts chosen to visit the lunar surface .
schmitt resigned from nasa in august 1975 in order to run for election to the united states senate as a member from new mexico .
as the republican candidate in the 1976 election , he defeated the two-term democrat incumbent joseph montoya , but , running for re-election in 1982 , was himself defeated , by democrat jeff bingaman .
