Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

He's the only astronaut without a military and aviation background to have set foot on

the moon.

He and other scientists entered the history books as the first time NASA sent scientists

to accompany astronauts into space.

But that's not the most curious fact about Harrison Schmidt.

Not even close.

You could say he's studied and prepared his entire life for the moment when he stepped

foot on Apollo 17, on December 11th of 1972.

After studying geology at the California Institute of Technology, he spent a year at the University

of Oslo.

In 1964, he received his PhD from Harvard.

From rocks to gas and the matter that makes up planets and their moons, I think it's

safe to say that Schmidt knew a lot about the material that makes up our world.

While most geologists work for energy companies or mining sectors, Schmidt took a different

route.

In 1965, he found work creating geological field techniques at the US Geological Survey's

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