When NASA’s Artemis I mission heads for the moon, there won’t be any astronauts aboard but a familiar face will be floating around the Orion capsule. Turns out, Snoopy and NASA have a long history together.
is a test flight for NASA’s giant new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. The capsule will spend several weeks in space, swinging around the moon before returning to Earth – trying out a variety of things the space program hasn’t accomplished since the Apollo days, which is when the Snoopy-NASA association began.
And just two months before the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the astronauts of Apollo 10 came within a few miles of landing on the moon, riding aboard a lunar module nicknamed ‘Snoopy’ and a command module they dubbed ‘Charlie Brown.’Astronaut Eugene Cernan, lunar module pilot of the Apollo 10 crew, is seen with a Snoopy puppet at a press conference held on April 26, 1969, at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
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