Harrison Jack Schmitt: Return to the Moon: Science, Energy and the Future

Another lecture in IHMC's award winning lecture series. www.ihmc.us
Dr. Harrison Schmitt has the diverse experience of a geologist, pilot, astronaut, administrator, businessman, writer, and U. S. Senator. He received his B. S. from Caltech, studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Oslo, attended graduate school at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in geology in 1964. Selected for the Scientist-Astronaut program in 1965, Schmitt organized the lunar science training for the Apollo Astronauts, represented the crews during the development of hardware and procedures for lunar surface exploration, and oversaw the final preparation of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Descent Stage. He served as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 17 -- the last Apollo mission to the moon. On December 11, 1972, he landed in the Valley of Taurus-Littrow as the only scientist and the last of the only 12 humans to stand on the Moon.
In 1975, Harrison Schmitt was elected to a six-year term in the U.S. Senate, the only natural scientist in the Senate since Thomas Jefferson was Vice-President of the United States. He was a member of the Senate Commerce, Banking, Appropriations, Intelligence, and Ethics Committees and held the position of Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. He later served on the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Presidents Commission on Ethics Law Reform, the Army Science Board, as Co-Chairman of the International Observer Group for the 1992 Romanian elections, and as Vice Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference in Spain.
Schmitt has been Chairman of the NASA Advisory Council since November 2005, leading its deliberations on issues related to Aeronautics, Audit and Finance, Biomedicine, Exploration (systems development), Human Capital, Science, and Space Operations. He presently is Chair Emeritus of The Annapolis Center (risk assessment) and is Adjunct Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Current board memberships include Orbital Sciences Corporation, Edenspace Systems Corporation, and PhDx Systems, Inc., and, as a retired Director, he is a Member of the Corporation of the Draper Laboratory. He also has served as a member of the Energy Departments Laboratory Operations Board.
In 1997, Schmitt co-founded and is Chairman of Interlune-Intermars Initiative, Inc., advancing the private sectors acquisition of lunar resources and Helium-3 fusion power and clinical use of medical isotopes produced by fusion-related processes. He is the author of, Return to the Moon (2006 Springer-Praxis) that describes a private enterprise approach to providing lunar helium-3 fusion energy resources for use on Earth.

[@CabrioDriving]

9000 views. It is a sad image of modern society. This man, walked on the f* Moon!

[@You.Tube.Sucks.]

👏👏👏

[@Ruda-n4h]

Even Apollo astronaut Frank Borman said. 'Any idea that the Apollo programme was a great voyage of exploration or scientific endeavour is nuts. People just aren't that excited about exploration. They were sure excited about beating the Russians.’

[@dks13827]

@@Ruda-n4hthey did the best they could. Early exploration. Trust me.

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@dks13827 I don't understand your point. What I meant was that it's not surprising there is only 9000 views of this video as most people aren't interested in exploration.

[@stevehislop]

Neil is Neil...he will be always remembered as the "First Man" and I liked his biography, but I would really rather meet a man who spent 10 times as long on the surface and ask him what it was like to be there for 3 f###ing days!..than ask Neil the trillionst time...Jack-republican or not- it would be such an honor to meet you.

[@ewan.cartwright]

Well now you don’t have much choice anyway

[@stevehislop]

@@ewan.cartwright Lol!

[@leofloppa]

Amazing lecture!

[@Tweekerhead]

Jack Schmitt for Prez' 2016!!

[@Tweekerhead]

Wow Vin'...I forgot I posted this, must've been the Heinekens!!
Still makes sense even now!
Have you read or checked out Dr. Gerald Kulcinski of U. of Wisconsin yet?
Someday , maybe in your life time, "man" will master the most simplest elements and it's isotopes for mankind's energy needs.

[@pasisovi]

KKKKKKK ... this comedy show cant stop!!

[@Ruda-n4h]

No, it's history.

[@dks13827]

Your Dad. Sad.

[@PacoOtis]

Just maybe Schmitt received a bit too much radiation while in space??

[@chuckdippel8514]

just like uu

[@desmondsmith3418]

💯PRECENT BULLSHITT

[@Ruda-n4h]

On what do you base that?