Lunar Geology Hammer
One of the last things that Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt did while on the surface of the moon at the end of the last lunar EVA of the Apollo program was to throw their one and only Geology hammer off into the distance.
Image & text: Nasa
Image source: NASA
White spot far away in solid black background is the hammer that Schmitt has thrown | Image AS17-143-21939HR from Nasa
Here is an exerpt from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal of the discussion surrounding the hammer throw:
170:29:44 Schmitt: Let me have your camera (to put in the ETB). Go ahead (and talk). (Noticing that Gene is about to throw the hammer) Oh, the poor little...Let me throw the hammer.
170:29:48 Cernan: Okay.
170:29:49 Schmitt: Let me throw the hammer? Please.
170:29:50 Cernan: It's all yours.
170:29:51 Schmitt: You got the gravimeter
170:29:52 Cernan: You deserve it. A hammer thrower...You're a geologist. You ought to be able to throw it.
170:29:56 Schmitt: You ready?
170:29:57 Cernan: Go ahead.
170:29:58 Schmitt: You ready for this? Ready for this?
170:30:00 Cernan: Yeah. Don't hit the LM. Or the ALSEP. (Pause)
[Jack throws the hammer with a discus motion. It is visible against the sky for a long time. Gene's picture of Jack, AS17-143-21941 may have been taken just after he threw the hammer.]
170:30:07Cernan: Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!
170:30:12 Schmitt: Beautiful.
170:30:14 Cernan: Looked like it was going a million miles, but it really didn't.
170:30:17 Schmitt: Didn't it?