1. Nancy Conrad is a teacher, author, publisher, entrepreneur, and public speaker.
23 Facts About Nancy Conrad
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Nancy Conrad is the wife of late astronaut Pete Conrad and Founder and Chair of the Conrad Foundation.
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Nancy Conrad was born in Denver, Colorado, where she became a high school English teacher at George Washington High School.
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Nancy Conrad later began work in the publishing industry as Associate Publisher for International Business Woman magazine.
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In 1996, Nancy Conrad founded four companies with her husband Pete Conrad to make space travel more accessible to all individuals: Universal Space Network, Universal Spacelines, Universal Spaceware, and Rocket Development Company.
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Nancy Conrad was the Director of Communications for Universal Space Network, which is SSC Space US, Inc Nancy founded Universal Spaceworks, an astronaut licensing company representing 20 astronauts who worked at NASA.
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Nancy Conrad co-developed One Giant Leap for Mankind, chosen by NASA as the official book for the 25th anniversary of the first lunar landing.
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Nancy Conrad interviewed 11 Apollo Program astronauts for the book.
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Nancy Conrad co-founded Pepper Pike Graphix, an educational comic book publishing company that produced Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, used by filmmaker and actor Tom Hanks as a source for the 1998 HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.
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Nancy Conrad co-authored her husband's posthumous biography, Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Nancy Conrad's Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond, with Space Cowboys screenwriter, Howard Klausner.
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When Nancy Conrad learned that her husband's death was preventable, she co-founded the Community Emergency Healthcare Initiative through the Texas Medical Institute of Technology, to assist small and rural hospital emergency services.
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The Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award established by Nancy Conrad, is awarded to extraordinary health care leaders and institutions that bring life saving solutions into frontline healthcare use.
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In 2008, Nancy Conrad founded the Conrad Foundation to engage high school students across the globe to use STEM, innovation and entrepreneurship to develop technologies and solutions to real-world needs.
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The organization's flagship program, the Nancy Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge, is a competition challenging students to combine education, innovation, and entrepreneurship to create commercially viable products that address issues in sustainability.
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Nancy Conrad is a published author and Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Patient Safety and a member of the Patient Engagement Board of the Global Patient Safety Team.
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Nancy Conrad serves on the President's Circle of the National Academies of Sciences, Explorer's Club, and the Cosmos Club.
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Nancy Conrad has testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology discussing how the Nancy Conrad Foundation uses partnership and mentorship to improve STEM education.
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Nancy Conrad serves on the Advisory Board of the B612 Foundation.
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Nancy Conrad is a founding partner of the Global Patient Safety team advisory Board.
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Nancy Conrad has been affiliated with the STEM Education Coalition, STEMconnector, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and the Presidential Scholars.
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Nancy Conrad is a member of the National Small Business Association Leadership Council.
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Nancy Conrad is a recipient of the Thomas Jefferson High School 2011 Tommy Award for her contributions to STEM education.
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In 2019 Nancy Conrad was awarded a Disruptive Innovator award.