The touching story of the first person of humanity permanently rests on the Moon

50 years after Apollo Mission, 12 people set foot on the Moon and dozens of people buried in space. The most special of which is Eugene Shoemaker - one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, and also the only one of humanity to rest on the Moon.

Eugene Shoemaker (also called by his friends and family by the name Gene), is one of the great minds of the 20th century.

The only person to be buried on the Moon

The dream burns to the Moon but fails

The name of this scientist was no longer strange in the scientific community. He and his wife Carolyn and colleague David Levy discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet known for its impact on Jupiter. The event once stormed the newspapers around the world in 1994, marking the first time people witnessed the sight of two celestial bodies in Tai Yang hitting each other.

Shoemaker has long enjoyed the Moon.

He also left many contributions to science when applying his geological knowledge to astronomy, contributing to the creation of planetary science. One of these is the establishment of the Astrogeology Research Program - a project of the US Geological Survey.

His work on meteorite craters has a great influence on understanding the extinction of dinosaurs and for the Mission of Apollo to bring people to the Moon.

Shoemaker has long been fond of the Moon, and dreams of sitting on a spaceship to set foot on and study this small planet. Sadly, he never had the chance to do that. He suffered from kidney disease, and the sick-eating apartment quenched his dream.

So instead, he trained the Apollo Mission astronauts on geological knowledge for the Moon trip.

Eugene Shoemaker.

Become the first person to rest on the Moon

After the Moon Mission ended, Gene (Shoemaker's intimate name) continued to study and observe planets, celestial bodies, still traveling around the world to study motherland and had more contribute to both astronomy and geology.

Tragedy happened. On the way to explore the crater in Australia in 1997, Gene encountered a car accident and died on July 18, leaving a pity for many people. However, his adventure did not seem to end there. The dream he could not make when he was alive, was finally "accepted" when he died.

A close colleague of Gene - Carolyn Porco wants to help her friend fulfill his dream of becoming an astronaut and has found a way to get him to the Moon. Fortunately, thanks to the achievements and contributions to science that Gene brought, Carolyn Porco did not take too much effort to convince NASA, they agreed to honor the late scientist by putting his ashes. to the Moon.

On January 6, 1998, NASA sent the probe to the Moon's south pole with 28 grams of Shoemaker's ashes. The ash is carefully wrapped in a brass leaf with the name, date, comet image Hale-Bopp, Arizona meteorite crater (where he trained Apollo astronauts) and a quote from the work " Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

On July 31, 1999, Eugene Shoemaker officially became the first, only and permanent resident on the moon when NASA destroyed the ship carrying his ashes on the planet's surface.

Mrs. Carolyn, the late scientist's wife, was moved to share her husband's special event: "Every time we look at the Moon, we know that Gene is there."