Signed by the author

SCHMITT, Harrison H.

Return to the Moon - Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space.

New York: Copernicus Books for Praxis Publishing Ltd., 2006.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Item #003980
ISBN: 0387242856

8vo (233 x 155 mm). xvi, 335 [1] pp. Half green cloth and black paper boards, in pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author on title page in black pen (Harrison Schmitt / Apollo 17"). Fine condition, in fine dust-jacket. ISBN 0387242856. ----

FIRST EDITION, HAND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Harrison H. Schmitt (born 1935) received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964. He was the first NASA scientist-astronaut to actually go into action. His previous task was to train the other astronauts for the upcoming lunar excursions for geological investigations. On March 15, 1970, he was assigned to the Apollo 15 backup crew as pilot of the lunar module. According to the usual rules, he would therefore have been nominated for the main crew of Apollo 18, but this flight was canceled in September 1970. Under pressure from various quarters, he was finally assigned to the Apollo 17 crew as a scientist-astronaut on August 13, 1971. His only mission in space lasted from December 6 to 19, 1972. As part of the Apollo 17 mission, he landed in the Taurus-Littrow area on December 11 with the lunar module Challenger and, together with Eugene Cernan, carried out the longest lunar exploration of all Apollo missions. There they set the unofficial lunar land speed record of 18 km/h. Schmitt is the twelfth and so far the last human to walk on the Moon, and the penultimate human on the lunar surface, which he left on December 14, 1972 (Cernan, the mission commander, walked on the lunar surface before Schmitt and returned to the lunar module after him on the final excursion). Schmitt retired from NASA in August 1975 (Wikisource). - Visit our website to see more images!

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