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Pete Conrad was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer, and test pilot who commanded Apollo 12 in 1969, becoming the third person to walk on the Moon. He also commanded Skylab 2 in 1973, the first crewed mission to the Skylab space station, where he and his crew repaired critical launch damage to the station.
Conrad's first words on the Moon were "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." He later revealed he said this to win a $500 bet with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who believed NASA scripted astronaut remarks. The joke was his proof that it did not.
Conrad was rejected during the 1959 Mercury astronaut selection process. His application was denied with the notation that he was "not suitable for long-duration flight," following his deliberate defiance of the medical and psychological testing procedures at the Lovelace Clinic in New Mexico. He was accepted three years later in the second astronaut group, in June 1962.
Conrad and commander Gordon Cooper set a new space endurance record on Gemini 5 in 1965, spending 7 days, 22 hours, and 55 minutes in orbit. This surpassed the then-current Soviet record of five days and matched the duration required for a crewed lunar landing mission.
President Jimmy Carter awarded Conrad the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 for his work on Skylab 2 in 1973. Conrad and his crew repaired critical launch damage to the Skylab space station, including erecting a solar shield and freeing a stuck solar panel by brute force, actions that saved the station from becoming unusable.
Conrad died on the 8th of July 1999 from internal injuries sustained when his motorcycle crashed on a turn while traveling from Huntington Beach to Monterey, California. He was wearing a helmet and was within the speed limit. He was buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery; Willie Nelson performed "Amazing Grace" at the service.