HOUSTON—Of the dozen Apollo astronauts who walked the Moon’s surface a half century ago, only one—Apollo 17’s Harrison Schmitt—was a professional career geologist when selected for the agency’s astronaut corps. To be sure an emphasis on lunar field geology is not overlooked as NASA races to return...
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