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“The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.”

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Pete Conrad was an American astronaut born on June 2, 1930, and passed away on July 8, 1999. During his tenure with NASA, he participated in the Apollo 11 mission, becoming the third person to walk on the moon. more

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