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Only one professional scientist has walked on the Moon; Harrison Schmitt was a geologist who was trained to be an astronaut. All the other lunarnauts were astronauts who had been trained in geology. There is a theory that Schmitt was "allowed" to go by NASA in recompense for sending Alan Shepherd who, as a smoker, found some of the mission too tiring to complete and who spent some time playing Golf.

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The first scientist on the moon was Harrison Schmitt, an American geologist and astronaut who was part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Schmitt conducted geological research and collected samples during his time on the moon.

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