50 years ago, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan Bean left the surface of the Moon to dock with Dick Gordon, and begin their journey home. This was the second time humans had landed on the Moon. Join ...
Lead image: Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad step out of Gemini 5 after splashdown back on Earth in 1965. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center Today, August 29, in 1965, a conversation went down between a ...
On Aug. 29, 1965, two NASA astronauts returned from their record-breaking Gemini 5 mission. Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad spent eight days in Earth's orbit, and for the first time, the United States ...