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Quote of the day:

 "Well, nobody remembers the second and that was why I said what I said. It was based on a bet I had with somebody who felt that Neil's words had been propaganda and not written by him. And I tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. And so it was in August of '69 before the fight when I made this bet: that I would say something that they would know that the United States government wasn't Big Brother telling us what to say. So I said, "It may have been small for Neil but it was a big one for a little fella like me" and it came out close to that. And I was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. And the only bad thing was the person that I made the bet with didn't pay off."

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr.
(Jun 02, 1930 - Jul 08, 1999)
Quote taken from an interview on PBS in 1971

He was Commander of  Apollo 12 and the shortest Apollo astronaut, and the third man to walk on the Moon, 19 November 1969