On Launch Morning, Apollo 12 Mission Commander Pete Conrad Gives a Memento
Conrad's gift to the head of NASA's Mission Support Office.
Commander of the Apollo 12 mission and the Lunar Module Intrepid. The Apollo 12 crew accomplished the second manned moon landing on November 19, 1969, and Conrad became the third human to set foot on the surface of the moon with the words "That may have been one small step for...
Commander of the Apollo 12 mission and the Lunar Module Intrepid. The Apollo 12 crew accomplished the second manned moon landing on November 19, 1969, and Conrad became the third human to set foot on the surface of the moon with the words "That may have been one small step for Neil, but that was one giant leap for Pete".
Conrad was a veteran of four spaceflights, his three others being Gemini 5, Gemini 11 and Skylab 2. Harold (Hal) Collins started out as Contracting Officer at NASA during the Mercury program, and went on to serve as Chief of the Mission Support Office at the Kennedy Space Center, retiring in 1973. His participation was integral to the U.S. space program and he worked closely with and came to know all of the astronauts.
When the Apollo 12 lifted off at 11:22 AM on November 14, 1969, Collins was in attendence. Launch morning he wanted a souvenir of the take-off, and Conrad obliged by writing him this check for $10 drawn on Conrad’s personal account, dating it Nov. 14, 1969 and signing it.
On the verso Collins has written “Check written by Charles Conrad on launch morning, Nov. 14, 1969.” Only a person in Collins’ senior post would have been in a position to obtain such a unique memento at that dramatic moment; we acquired it directly from the Collins family. It is a wonderful remembrace of the high-water mark of the American space program, when moon-walking success followed success.
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