Dr. Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt, who was one of two astronauts to last walk on the Moon, will launch AWB's 20th Annual Policy Summit on Sept. 22. Best known as the first ‘scientist astronaut’, Schmitt was chosen to walk on the moon with Apollo 17 in 1972.
Prior to being an astronaut, Schmitt received a B.S. degree in science from the California Institute of Technology, then spent a year studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway and received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964. Now a resident of Silver City, NM, he has been a United States Senator and served as chair of the NASA Advisory Council providing technical advice to the NASA Administrator as well as being an adjunct professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Schmitt was the keynote speaker at AWB's 1998 Environmental Excellence Awards luncheon. He is expected to talk about the future of America's space program now that the Shuttle program is nearing the end of its life span.
Schmitt is an outspoken critic of global warming and recently resigned from the Planetary Society over his firm belief that global warming is not man made. In his email resignation Schmitt said, “"Consensus", as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science.
You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.
Schmitt will be the dinner speaker on Sept. 22 at the Suncadia Resort. For information about the Summit, contact Jennifer Davis (360) 943-1600.
Don C. Brunell, President (DonB@awb.org)