Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American engineer, U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and the third person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. He set an eight-day space endurance record along with command pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mission, and commanded the Gemini 11 mission. After Apollo, he commanded the Skylab 2 mission, on which he and his crew repaired significant launch damage to the Skylab space station. For this, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978.
Pete Conrad was born on June 2, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third child and first son of Charles Conrad, Sr. and Frances De Rappelage Conrad (née Vinson), a well-to-do real estate and banking family. His mother wanted very much to name her newborn son “Peter”, but Charles insisted that his first son bear his name. In a compromise between two iron wills, the name on his birth certificate would read “Charles Conrad, Jr.” but to his mother and virtually all who knew him, he was “Peter”. When he was 21, his fiancée’s father called him “Pete” and thereafter, Conrad adopted it. For the rest of his life, to virtually everyone, he was “Pete”.
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This program strives to give the viewer an impression of what it is like to actually be on the moon. It provides a romantic, inspirational depiction of the Apollo astronauts travels on the moon peppered by their quotations of their impressions.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, 3d-in-title, american-flag, apollo-1, apollo-mission, archival-footage, astronaut, begins-with-a-quotation, contingency-plan, digit-in-title
Only 12 Have Walked On The moon. This Fall, You're Next!
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Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and America have already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" flight.. until that is, things go very wrong, and prospects of a safe return fade.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, against-the-odds, air-pressure, aircraft-carrier, apollo-13, astronaut, bare-chested-male, baseball, based-on-book
Houston, we have a problem.
[watching the Apollo 11 landing on TV]::Pete Conrad: Jim, you think it's too late for him to abort?::Jim Lovell: No, he still has time to get outta there, he just needs someone to wave him off.
William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM: When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along!
[Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie]::Barbara Lovell: Dad, can I please wear this?::Jim Lovell: Sure.::Marilyn Lovell: Jim!::Jim Lovell: No! No, absolutely not.
Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?::Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.
Jim Lovell: Just a little while longer Freddo. Just a little while longer, we're gonna hit that water in the South Pacific. Open up that hatch. It's 80 degrees out there.::Fred Haise, Sr.: 80 degrees.
Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.
Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin.::Neil Armstrong: Hi.::Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too?
NASA Director: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.::Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.
Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?::[pause]::Sy Liebergot: I'll get back to you, Gene.
Henry Hurt: I, uh, I have a request from the news people.::Marilyn Lovell: Uh-huh?::Henry Hurt: They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.::Marilyn Lovell: Transmitter?::Henry Hurt: Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.::Marilyn Lovell: I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.::Henry Hurt: Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...::Marilyn Lovell: Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them - why should NOT landing on it be?::Henry Hurt: Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic-...::Marilyn Lovell: No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY!