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Read Decades of Growth and Discovery Mark NASA Research at UT

Decades of Growth and Discovery Mark NASA Research at UT

Through that Apollo 17 mission 45 years ago, geoscientist Lawrence “Larry” Taylor—who would go on to establish UT’s Earth and Planetary Sciences program—formed a longtime friendship and collaboration with astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt that would come to shape the collaboration between the university and NASA.