Posted on 05/15/2009 5:57:18 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Snoopy, the irreverent dog from the "Peanuts" comic strip, took time from his World War I dogfights as world-famous flying ace to become a world-famous astronaut for NASA's Apollo 10 mission.
The beagle now has a 5-foot-tall statue at Florida's Kennedy Space Center to commemorate the flight, which launched 40 years ago this month and arrived at the moon on May 21, 1969. That's when the Snoopy lunar module and the Charlie Brown command module entered lunar orbit. Apollo 10 paved the way for Apollo 11 to land men on the moon.
"It went down in his life as one of the all-time highlights of his career," said Craig Schulz, son of Charles Schulz, the famed American comic strip writer who died in 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
My Dad has a Zippo somewhere with his old unit on it and that shot of Snoopy going down while waving his fist and shouting **** You Red Baron!
Snoopy brings back so many pleasant childhood memories. Snoopy was so cool. Thanks for posting.
It’s the same here, Liber. Peanuts is one of my favorite cartoons and will be for all time.
Nice
Lol, that’s cute Phil. Pat Snoopy for luck.
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Good stuff !!!
Thanks devolve, I’ve redone a bunch of the Peanut’s characters. When I finish I’ll make a new folder and upload them all.
:’) Cernan recounts the partial (practice) descent of the lunar module, and what happened when they turned back skyward. “Apollo 10 became x-rated”. What the tape shows is that he (or maybe Stafford) said “son of a b-”. :’)
If I recall the reason for cursing was they had some major problem cause be a computer overload ... if it was a real landing the mostly likely would of crashed ...
There a reason for dress rehearsals
Stafford fired the explosive bolts holding the descent stage and, moments before the ascent stage engine was to be fired, Snoopy went into a violent spin for around eight seconds until Stafford could bring the craft back under control. Cernan obviously thought they were going to crash and his voice tapes indicate so in what one might charitably interpret from the expletives as something like Oh dear... (The culprit was an incorrectly set Abort Switch, which caused Snoopy to begin a programmed automatic return to Charlie Brown, whilst in a dangerous downward attitude towards the surface).
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