Geological and Sample Collection Training for Missions

Among the most influential scientists involved in lunar science and the establishment of astronaut training for their missions on the lunar surface was Eugene Shoemaker. He also established a support team of many qualified geologists and geophysicists to assist in the training of the Apollo astronauts. The Apollo program drew to it, as if by some grand design, the finest engineering, scientific and management minds in the United States during the 1960s. Every one of them was vital to the success of the Apollo program. Eugene Shoemaker ensured the astronauts exploring the lunar surface could identify and rapidly collect the lunar samples that would tell the history of the Moon and, by extension, expand our knowledge of the Earth.