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Whoopee — Pete Conrad Steps on the Moon
Apollo 12 November 19, 1969

Whoopee — Pete Conrad Steps on the Moon

Pete Conrad landed the LM within 200 meters of Surveyor 3 — a precision landing NASA could barely believe. Then he stepped onto the Moon and said exactly what he'd bet a journalist he would say. "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a…
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