Charles Conrad Jr

One of the earliest NASA astronauts, "Pete" Conrad was the third man to walk on the moon. It was the crowning achievement of his NASA career, which included four space trips totaling more than 1,180 hours in space. He also flew twice during the Gemini program, and spent 28 days on the first U.S. space station, Skylab, in 1973. Before joining NASA, Conrad was a flight instructor and test pilot at the Navy Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Md. Lately, he was working on opening up space to civilians for vacation trips. Conrad died July 8 from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident in California. He was 69. From This is True for 4 July 1999 Suggestions for further reading: Test Pilot's Daughter: Revenge by Steve Ward Amazon Price: Customer Review: Test Pilot's Daughter. What a wonderful novel. It has absolutely everything, great plot, prose, characters. I adore strong female character's and Christina does not disappoint. I stayed up all night reading this, it's a real page turner....   Nasa Northrop T-38, The: Photographic Art from an Astronaut Pilot by Story Musgrave, Lance Lenehan, Anne Lenehan Amazon Price: $49.95 Customer Review: There are lots of pretty picture books of airplanes. Many of them are very nice. But this is something more. It's special. This is a long love affair with one beautiful woman, the T-38, photographed over 30 years by NASA legend and six-time Space S...   Test Pilot's Daughter II: Dead Reckoning by Steve Ward Amazon Price: Customer Review: This is the second Test Pilot's Daughter novel that I have read by Steve Ward. I really enjoyed the first book but this second book just blew me away. Steve's second in the series has non stop excitement. Do you like NASA, Space Flight, very stro...   America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years by Steven Dick, Robert Jacobs, Constance Moore, Bertram Ulrich Amazon Price: $31.50 Customer Review: I couldn't put this down. It changed everything I've ever believed about the space program. Buy it and prepare to stay awake into the night reading it.   Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyss... by Francis French, Colin Burgess Amazon Price: $19.77 Customer Review: Burgess and French's superb book captures not just the details of our first ventures into space, but more important, the spirit of a time that we will see but once. These authors have done history a great service, giving us with immediacy of the peop...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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