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From: Steven L. Wilson Sr <Ndunlks@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 05:08:35 EDT
Fwd Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:12:58 -0400
Subject: U.S. Astronaut Charles Conrad Dies

U.S. Astronaut Charles Conrad Dies

.c The Associated Press

OJAI, Calif. (AP) - Charles P. 'Pete' Conrad Jr., an American
astronaut who was the third man to walk on the moon, died
Thursday after a motorcycle accident near Ojai. He was 69.

Conrad was riding his motorcycle with friends when he crashed
on a turn, Ventura County Deputy Coroner James Baroni said.
Conrad, who lived in Huntington Beach near Los Angeles, died
later at an Ojai hospital.

As commander of the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, Conrad earned
the distinction of being the third man to walk on the moon.
Along with astronaut Alan Bean, Conrad spent seven hours and 45
minutes on the lunar surface.

NASA selected Conrad, an aeronautical engineer, as an astronaut
in 1962. He was the pilot of the Gemini 5 mission in 1965, which
set an endurance record in orbiting the earth. A year later,
Conrad commanded Gemini 11, which docked with another craft and
featured space walks by another pilot.

Conrad, who was an aviator in the U.S. Navy after graduating
from Princeton University, also flew in the first manned Skylab
mission, in 1973. During this mission, he established a personal
endurance record for time in space, with 1,179 hours and 38
minutes.

In an interview with The Associated Press over Memorial Day
weekend at Kennedy Space Center, Conrad said he was looking
forward to the day he turned 77.

"I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as
they treated Sen. (John) Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise,
why, then I'll have to do it myself", he declared.

 After retiring from NASA and the Navy, he worked as chief
operating officer of American Television and Communications
Corp. in Denver and later for McDonnell Douglas Corporation, the
aviation manufacturer.

 In 1995, he formed his own company called Universal Space Lines
and several sister companies with the goal of commercializing
space.

"He was going back to space as an entrepreneur, trying to
create ways for rockets to launch inexpensively and manage
satellites", said his widow, Nancy Conrad.

Conrad is survived by his wife, four sons and seven
grandchildren. A son preceded him in death.

 AP-NY-07-09-99 0450EDT

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