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1997

Houston, Texas. NASA inaugurates a grove planted with as many trees as astronauts who lost their lives, either in accidents or natural causes. They are all illuminated with white lights, except one, Pete Conrad’s, which, at the request of Alan Bean (his flight companion on Apollo 12), is illuminated with green and red lights. As Pete liked to say, “If you can’t be good, be colorful.” Pete Conrad was probably both.