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Jun 02, 1930 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 08 Jul 1999 (aged 69)
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About Pete Conrad
- Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.
- (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third man to walk on the Moon.
- Conrad was selected in NASA's second astronaut class. He set an eight-day space endurance record in 1966 along with his Command Pilot Gordon Cooper on his first spaceflight, Gemini 5.
- Later, Conrad commanded Gemini 11 in 1966, and Apollo 12 in 1969.
- After Apollo, he commanded Skylab 2, the first crewed Skylab mission.
- On the mission, he and his crewmates repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space station.
- For this, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. After he retired from NASA in 1973, he became a vice president of American Television and Communications Company.
- He went on to work for McDonnell Douglas, as a vice president.
- During his tenure, he served as vice president of marketing, senior vice president of marketing, staff vice president of international business development, and vice president of project development. Conrad died on July 8, 1999, from internal injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
