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Topic: Pete Conrad: STS-41D payload specialist
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-22-2012 03:38 PM
   
Anyone hear of this? [Editor's note: 2012 link now defunct] Apparently, Pete Conrad was offered a chance to serve as a payload specialist for McDonnell Douglas on this mission but he turned it down. Charlie Walker flew instead (He would also fly on STS-51-D and STS-61-B in 1985). |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-22-2012 03:48 PM
Perhaps being "The F***ing Old Guy" wasnt appealing to him? |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-22-2012 07:16 PM
What do you mean "old guy"? Pete Conrad was only 54 at the time!
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dabolton
Member Posts: 419
From: Seneca, IL, US
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 02-22-2012 09:54 PM
Interesting that this wasn't mentioned in his bio. |
Michael Cassutt
Member Posts: 358
From: Studio City CA USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 02-22-2012 10:19 PM
"Offered" isn't the right word. It was apparently a brief discussion at McDAC, where Conrad worked at the time (1983). I've heard or read one Conrad comment on it, "I don't think old [41-D commander] Hank Hartsfield would want me down on his mid-deck." I don't believe he was interested in going back to NASA for that amount of time, nor was he interested in big-footing a shuttle flight at the expense of Charlie Walker, who had been working the CFES/EOS program for several years. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-24-2012 03:06 PM
I would have wanted to see that mission with Conrad, Hartsfield, Mullane, Resnik and Hawley, "the post-doc with the right stuff."  |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-24-2012 05:45 PM
They were they "Zoo Crew" as it was... I can only imagine what Pete would have brought to the table!Oh, and Mike Coats would like a word, please... |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 06-28-2017 02:31 PM
In your opinion, if Conrad wanted the role of payload specialist on the shuttle for McDonnell Douglas, would get it? |
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