Through the courtesy of Nancy Conrad, we are delighted to offer this new
biography of Pete Conrad.
For Pete Conrad, it was all about the ride. Nicknamed the Comeback Kid,
he survived his family's financial hardships, overcame dyslexia, landed a
Navy scholarship to Princeton, and became one of the country's elite test
pilots. Never the squeaky clean NASA poster boy, he famously bounced himself
out of the Mercury Program but came roaring back to fly two Gemini missions,
walk on the moon as Commander of Apollo 12, command the first Skylab, and
work to develop the first re-usable commercial rocket-logging more time in
space than all the original astronauts combined. Based on interviews
conducted with Conrad by his wife before his untimely death, Rocketman
is the amazing-but-true, surprisingly candid insider's view of the greatest
ride in history, America's glorious race to the stars, as seen through the
eyes of the real Space Cowboy: Pete Conrad, the Rocketman.
Nancy Conrad was married to Pete Conrad for the last ten years of his
life. A writer, artists' representative, and interior designer, she
co-founded Universal Space Networks (with her late husband), and the
Community Emergency Healthcare Initiative, to prevent injuries and deaths
occurring from medical error in emergency rooms.
Howard A. Klausner wrote the screenplay for
Space Cowboys,
starring Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones.
"Rocketman:
Astronaut Pete Conrad’s Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond"