Apollo astronaut visits campus, shares tales from the moon
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This week, Harrison βJackβ Schmitt, an Apollo-era astronaut and the last person to set foot on the moon, gave a group of CU ΒιΆΉΣ°ΤΊ students the chance to see something rare: color on the lunar surface.
Schmitt, who flew on Apollo 17 in 1972, visited the university Monday. He spoke to an undergraduate class focusing on space science and policy and later delivered a public talk at the Fiske Planetarium. You can watch the live stream of Schmitt's talk online.
The glimpse of color came from a photograph that had been recreated from negatives that Schmitt snapped during his 3-day trek on the lunar surface. It showed a reddish-orange streak of lunar soil that Schmitt, a Harvard-trained geologist, explained was made up of tiny glass beads created during a 3.5 billion-year-old volcanic eruption. Read more...