Pete Conrad
Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.,, was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon. He set an eight-day space endurance record along with his Command Pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mission, and commanded the Gemini 11 mission. After Apollo, he commanded the Skylab 2 mission, on which he and his crewmates repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth2 June 1930
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.
The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.
[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.
Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
If you can’t be good, be colorful.
Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last 30 years.
Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.
The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me.