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THE MAN IN THE MOON • Dr. Eugene Shoemaker was a U.S. Geological DEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): Survey astronomer who always wanted to be problems • an It astronaut. was while Unfortunately, living in Illinoishealth that John nokept him from ever going into space. Instead, ticed the problems that farmers faced when heattempting trained the astronauts. toApollo till soil.mission Because the area had formerlywith beenDavid woodland, the soil discovered was rich • Together Levy, Eugene withShoemaker-Levy hummus, which clumped and clung to the Comet which crashed the blades of the plows farmers were accusinto Jupiter in 1994. When he died in a car tomed to using. While repairing a broken ciraccident at the age of 69 in 1997, he was crecular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He mated. NASA placed his to ashes in athecapsule employed his smith skills fashion steel aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft. blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed
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• The crash kicked up a huge cloud of debris children to the state’s finest schools. One of which was analyzed for the presence of water. his proudest days occurred when son Charles The crash scattered theMBA ashesfrom of Eugene earned thealso equivalent of an Bell’s Shoemaker theinsurface of the place he Commercialacross College Chicago. most wanted to visit in his life. Since then, • further With his son Charles company,of studies have managing proven thethepresence John found time to pursue philanthropic inwater ice in deep craters at the poles.
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