Charles (Pete) Conrad ... “The Earth resembled a beautiful blue marble suspended against a black velvet blanket. After retiring and moving to California, Conrad worked on space ventures for ...

school board committee meetings Thursday as the lead candidate to fill its coaching vacancy. Conrad is 58-42 after leading the Wildcats to a cup of coffee in the 2008-09 District 3-AA tournament.

Some people cackle when they laugh. Cackle like barnyard hens. Pete Conrad was that way. And boy, was he loud. I once heard his cackle echo down a hallway at Boeing-Huntington Beach, back when the ...

If Apollo 12's crew were nervous, they certainly didn't let it show. Commander Pete Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean spent a pretty good chunk of their seven and a half cumulative hours on ...

Charles "Pete" Conrad was a true buccaneer of the space age. He drove fast cars, enjoyed fast planes and selected his first words on the moon to win a bet with a journalist. (He never collected on ...

Pete Conrad was the third man to walk on the moon _ but he was the first to hum aloud as he did. His first word as he stepped on the lunar surface 30 years ago: "Whoopee!" Conrad died Thursday in ...

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 long ...

Using the Agena’s engine, Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon reached an apogee (peak distance from the Earth) of 850 miles; most Gemini missions, and missions since, have operated under the 200 mile ...