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Schmitt had previously been crewed with Apollo 12 Command Module pilot Dick Gordon in anticipation of Apollo 18, but Schmitt replaced Engle on Apollo 17 after the cancellation of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19, leaving Gordon as the last Apollo astronaut to train extensively for lunar exploration without ever landing on the Moon.
In the case of Apollo 18 the crew was probably the Apollo 15 backup crew: [5] Richard F. Gordon Jr. (commander (CDR)) Vance D. Brand (Command Module pilot (CMP)) Harrison Schmitt (Lunar Module pilot (LMP)) When Apollo 18 was canceled, Schmitt was moved up to Apollo 17 under pressure from the scientific community, replacing Joe Engle. Schmitt, a ...
Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage science fiction horror film [3] written by Brian Miller, directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff. An American - Canadian co-production, its premise is that the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974, but never returned.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
In December 1972, as one of the crew on board Apollo 17, Schmitt became the first member of NASA's first scientist-astronaut group to fly in space. As Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions, he also became the twelfth and second-youngest person to set foot on the Moon and the second-to-last person to step off of the Moon (he boarded the ...
The fictional Apollo 18 mission in James Michener's 1982 novel Space; The fictional Apollo 18 mission in the 2024 Constellation TV series on Apple TV+; Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon, a 1988 video game by Accolade; Apollo 18, a 1992 album by They Might Be Giants; Apollo 18 (band), a Korean indie rock trio, formed in 2008
The flags indicate the astronaut's primary citizenship during his or her time as an astronaut. The symbol identifies female astronauts. The symbol indicates astronauts who have left low Earth orbit. The symbol indicates astronauts who have walked on the Moon. The symbol † indicates astronauts who have died in incidents related to a space program.
Starting with Apollo 13, each crew consisted of a senior astronaut from Group 1, 2 or 3, and a CM and LM specialist from the Nineteen, [78] except that geologist Harrison Schmitt from Group 4 was designated as the Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 18, and then took Engle's place on Apollo 17 when Apollo 18 was canceled. [79]