Charles "Pete" Conrad (1930-1999) was the third person, after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, to walk on the moon's surface. In November, 1969, he and Alan Bean made the second moon landing in history in their Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid. Conrad...

1930-1999 American astronaut who walked on the Moon and commanded the first crew to live aboard the Skylab space station. Conrad's handling of the lunar module Intrepid during the Apollo 12 mission of November 1969 showed that pinpoint lunar...

Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), was an American astronaut and the third man to walk on the moon. He served on Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2 missions, and may have been scheduled for the Apollo 20 mission, which...

At 69, he still came across like a kid with a big, mischievous grin. He was a spinner of yarns, a prankster, racing through an active life with a cell phone at one ear and his hand on the controls of some racy vehicle....

Charles P. "Pete" Conrad Jr., 69, a former Navy test pilot and astronaut who in 1969 became the third man to walk on the moon, died July 8 at a hospital in Ojai, Calif., of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident. A...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2007. There are 124 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then...

In the late 1960s, motor sports safety pioneer Bill Simpson was a rebel who liked to raise hell and race fast.Idling in a Los Angeles courtroom was not his speed. But there Simpson sat, facing allegations that the fire suit he invented failed to adequately...