Dr. Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, an astronaut and astrogeologist with the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, will provide the keynote dinner address on Friday, May 15 to wrap up the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop.
Schmitt is just one of a dozen people to walk on the moon, and the only trained geologist to do so.
Currently, Schmitt chairs the NASA Advisory Council, and serves as an adjunct professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he acts as a consultant on research with the Fusion Technology Institute to study the feasibility of deriving energy from helium-3, a non-radioactive helium isotope which is rare on Earth but plentiful on the moon.
This research provides the basis for Friday's presentation, which is entitled "Return to the Moon - Energy at the Space Frontier."
The former United States senator also made headlines in February 2009 for speaking out against global warming.
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