Eugene Shoemaker: (co-founder Planetary Science) The Man on the Moon

Eugene Shoemaker

Excerpt from AccuWeather staff article: “Wrapped in a brass foil ribbon with a photo of the Barringer Crater and a quote from “Romeo & Juliet”, Shoemaker’s ashes were launched on January 6, 1998 and a year later, when the vessel’s primary mission had ended, it deliberately crashed into the lunar south pole, where it remains to this day.” READ MORE

Shoemaker is known as one of the founders of the field Planetary Science, and was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteorite Crater and many other terrestrial craters were caused by meteor impacts.