Soldering in Quarantine
Sketch completed 15 May 2007
Drawing Copyright by Ulrich Lotzmann. All rights reserved.
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Ulli dedicates this sketch to the Apollo 12 Commander's oldest son,
Peter Conrad
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Ulli writes:
"This sketch deals with the fact that good old Pete - confined in biological quarantine with his crewmates after their moon trip - had nothing better to do than putting together a Hi-Fi AM/FM radio for the Conrad family's living room. While Gordon and Bean were reading, writing letters and watching movies, Pete was soldering." "That's another illustration that Pete was something special - colorful!" "His old one had conked out on him some time before the flight; and he figured that quarantine would be a good time to build another one. He arranged for the FM kit and the assembly tools to be waiting for him in the LRL when he entered the quarantine." "One night in the LRL, Pete jokingly said that, if he was going any sleep, someone was going to have to get him another bed; his was all covered with radio parts." Peter Conrad recalls that it was a Heathkit radio set. 'It had transistor boards in it instead of tubes. When he got home from the quarantine, he showed me all the boards he had soldered together while he was locked up.'"
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Peter Conrad. Photographed on 20 May 2007 in Germany by Ulli Lotzmann.
Editor's note: Peter was born in 1953 and
was 16 when his father flew to the Moon.
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