Apollo 17 Cmdr. Gene Cernan was covered in lunar dust after his second moonwalk.
Credit: NASA
When Harrison Schmitt took off his helmet, he whiffed the same scent all other Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon have smelled. “All of the astronauts agreed it smelled like gunpowder,” Schmitt, the Apollo 17 Lunar Module pilot, tells Aviation Week. “You know, we all had, at one time or...
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