Known for his sense of humor and infectious grin, Charles P. "Pete" Conrad [ http://spaceflight.…], as commander of the Apollo 12 mission [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], was the third person to walk on the moon. Not a tall man, Conrad stepped down onto the lunar surface in November of 1969 and gleefully commented [ http://www.hq.nasa.…], "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Born June 2nd, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and went on to become a Navy test pilot. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 1962, Conrad is seen here in 1965 [ http://images.jsc.n…] during a suiting up activity in preparation for his first space flight - the endurance record setting Gemini 5 mission [ http://www.ksc.nasa…]. His final space flight was to Skylab [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in 1973. Tragically [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.g…], Conrad died from injuries in a motorcycle accident on Thursday, July 8 [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.g…].
