Pete Conrad
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Sep 10, 2026
Vin ScullyHOST
Then the Cubs will be in Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Vin ScullyHOST
And Thursday night, the men from the moon, Captain Charles Pete Conrad, Captain Richard Gordon, and several other members of our astronaut team will be here to see the Dodgers and the Cardinals.
Vin ScullyHOST
Ted Sizemore takes the strike, going one.
Vin ScullyHOST
The Cubs will be here.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They'll decide tomorrow.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Neither Cooper nor Comrade has had much sleep or food, but both are in good condition and drinking plenty of water.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, again, a foul.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Balls to the can of tape.
Morgan HouselHOST
Three months later on Apollo 12, astronaut Al Bean walked on the moon and he turned to his other fellow astronauts.
Morgan HouselHOST
It was Pete Conrad.
Morgan HouselHOST
And he said, it's kind of like the song.
Morgan HouselHOST
Is that all there is? And the other astronaut, Pete Conrad, was relieved because he described his moonwalk himself as spectacular but not momentous.
Morgan HouselHOST
And so I think to me that's the ultimate reminder, maybe the starkest example that exists, that so much of the thrill of doing something comes from anticipation.
Morgan HouselHOST
But actually experiencing it firsthand tends to relatively fall flat from how much joy you got from thinking about the thing.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The President of the Tournament of Roses, C. Louis Edwards in the front seat.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And our three Apollo 12 astronauts, Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Ellen M. Bean in the Chrysler 300.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Honored as the Grand Marshals here at the Rose Bowl Parade this morning and are here at the game this afternoon.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The queen of the Rose Bowl and her court in the Dodge Polaro.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He wheels around, comes by way of Port Arthur, and he comes back with a fastball that's fouled Next pitch is fouled off again.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Gemini 5 space flight is over and the astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad say they are feeling fine and they're willing to go off next week if necessary.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Doctors aboard the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain say that astronauts are in amazingly excellent condition and are perfectly happy.
Ralph KinerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Two strike bits and in the left field of base six.
Leonard DavidGUEST
I mean, but I, I've heard that, uh, I've heard from somebody fairly knowledgeable that there may be an Artemis 4, something like the Apollo 10 trial run, that we're going to have astronauts out at the moon and doing some kind of early test of the equipment and getting down to a certain altitude and getting out.
Leonard DavidGUEST
But I was lucky enough to know Pete Conrad and, and, and, You always wonder how he...
Leonard DavidGUEST
I always felt like he was going to keep going.
Leonard DavidGUEST
He wasn't going to pull back out.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[marching band music]The grand marshals and the president of the Tournament of Roses are coming on also, and they'll be touring.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There they are, the president of the Tournament of Roses, C. Lewis Edwards in the front seat, and our three Apollo 12 astronauts, Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan M. Bean in the Chrysler 300, honored as the grand marshals here at the Rose Bowl Parade this morning, and are here at the game this afternoon.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The queen of the Rose Bowl and her court in the Dodge Polara.
Kurt GowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Pamela Tedesca is the Rose Bowl queen this year.
Mark GagnonHOST
But as we said before, basically no one is going to go through f- uh, 500 pages of space data to find one piece of commentary.
Mark GagnonHOST
So just a few months after the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo 12 took off in November of '69 with Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Alan Bean.
Mark GagnonHOST
Now, Bean is at the alignment optical telescope, which is the instrument that astronauts will use to like lock onto stars and like orient the spacecraft and where it's supposed to be in space.
Mark GagnonHOST
And the cabin is dark, so his eyes are fully adjusted to what he's staring at, and he's starts describing what he sees, these particles of light and these flashes and objects moving in different directions.
Vin ScullyHOST
Then the Cubs will be in Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Vin ScullyHOST
And Thursday night, the men from the moon, Captain Charles, Pete Conrad, Captain Richard Gordon, and several other members of our astronaut team will be here to see the Dodgers and the Cardinals.
Vin ScullyHOST
Ted Sizemore takes the strike, 2 and 1.
Vin ScullyHOST
The Cubs will be here the 12th, 13th, and 14th, that's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.
Greg FishelPANELIST
That's correct.
Greg FishelPANELIST
I think that was Pete Conrad's Apollo landing.
Sam WalkerPANELIST
Al Bean and Pete Conrad.
Sam WalkerPANELIST
Pete Conrad was commander and Al Bean was, he was a pilot.
Greg FishelPANELIST
And Pete was a trip.
Sam WalkerPANELIST
Oh, that crew was hilarious.
Sam WalkerPANELIST
anyway, there's some really cool stuff that you can go find.
Sam WalkerPANELIST
But if you go and listen to the Apollo 12 audio, compare that to the Apollo 11 and how Neil was so straightforward and all the buzz was too.
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