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Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon.
Jun 18, 2024 · Pete Conrad joined the U.S. Navy in 1953 after graduating from Princeton University and trained as a test pilot and flight instructor. Selected as a member of the second group of NASA astronauts in 1962, Conrad flew on two Gemini missions and commanded Apollo 12, the second Moon landing.
Jul 4, 2024 · Pete Conrad was an American astronaut, copilot on the Gemini 5 spaceflight (1965), command pilot of Gemini 11, spacecraft commander of the Apollo 12 flight to the Moon, and commander of the Skylab 2 mission. Learn more about Conrad’s life and accomplishments in this article.
Jul 10, 1999 · Pete Conrad, who flew to the Moon nearly 30 years ago and became the third man to walk upon it, died Thursday evening after crashing his motorcycle near Ojai, Calif. The former astronaut and...
Nov 19, 2019 · Fifty years ago, astronaut Pete Conrad stepped out of the lunar module onto the surface of the moon. His first words were: "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a...
Apr 4, 2013 · Pete Conrad overcame dyslexia to become one of NASA's most-traveled astronauts, logging four trips into space, including Apollo 12.
Pete Conrad. Charles "Pete" Conrad (1930-1999) was the third person, after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, to walk on the moon's surface. In November, 1969, he and Alan Bean made the second moon landing in history in their Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid. Conrad was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1930, to a wealthy stockbroker.
Jun 22, 2023 · Skylab 2 astronauts Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Pilot Paul J. Weitz, and Science Pilot Joseph P. Kerwin, completed their record-setting 28-day mission on June 22, 1973, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Nov 20, 2019 · Apollo 12 astronauts Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan L. Bean were in high spirits when they re-entered their Lunar Module (LM) Intrepid on the Moon’s Ocean of Storms. They had completed two Extravehicular Activities (EVAs) or spacewalks on the lunar surface, spending a total of 7 hours and 45 minutes outside.
Nov 19, 2009 · On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad ’53 departed his landing craft and stepped onto the surface of the moon, becoming the third person — and the only Princetonian — to do so.
