Harrison Schmitt cancelled in September 1970, the community of lunar geologists supporting Apollo felt so strongly about the need to land a professional geologist on the Moon, that they pressured NASA to reassign Schmitt to a remaining flight. As a result, Schmitt was assigned in August 1971 to fly on the last mission, Apollo 17, replacing Joe Engle as Lunar Module Pilot. Schmitt landed on the Moon with commander Gene Cernan in December 1972. Schmitt claims to have taken the photograph of the Earth known as "The Blue Marble", possibly one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. NASA officially
John Young (astronaut) spacecraft for their tenth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be named S.S. "John Young". In the 1995 film, "Apollo 13", Young was played by Ben Marley. In the 1998 HBO miniseries, "From the Earth to the Moon", he was played by John Posey. Young is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary film and book, "In the Shadow of the Moon"; the Discovery Channel series, ""; and the documentary film, "The Wonder of It All". John Young (astronaut) John Watts Young (September 24, 1930 – January 5, 2018) was an American astronaut, naval officer and