Background
Schmitt, Harrison Hagan was born on July 3, 1935 in Santa Rita, New Mexico, United States. Son of Harrison A. and Ethel (Hagan) Schmitt.
( Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a priv...)
Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon―to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role―just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production―Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.
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United States Senator from New Mexico
Schmitt, Harrison Hagan was born on July 3, 1935 in Santa Rita, New Mexico, United States. Son of Harrison A. and Ethel (Hagan) Schmitt.
Bachelor, California Institute of Technology, 1957. Postgraduate student, University Oslo, 1957—1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Degree (honorary), Franklin Marshall College, 1977. Degree (honorary), Colo School Mines, 1971. Degree (honorary), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973.
Geologist United States Geological Survey, 1964—1965. Astronaut National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1965. Lunar module pilot Apollo 17, 1972, special assistant to administrator, 1974.
Assistant administrator Office Energy Progs., 1974. United States Senator from New Mexico, 1977—1983. Consultant, since 1983.
Founder, chairman Interlune-Intermars Initiative Inc. Member President' Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1984-1985, Army Science Board, 1985-1990, President' Ethics Commission, 1989. Chairman technical advisory board Army Research Laboratory.
Adjunct professor engineering University Wisconsin, Madison, since 1995. Chair, president to chair emeritus Annapolis Center, since 1994. Board directors Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Chair, National Aeronautics and Space Administration advisory council, since 2005.
( Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a priv...)
Author: Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space, 2005.
Trustee The Lovelace Institutes. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Association Petroleum Geologists.
Married Teresa Fitzgibbons in 1985.