Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 05, 2016

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Btw first!

I had an Astronaut Snoopy! I think it was in 1970. I do know I was getting Space Oddity on the late night radio, working the skip from Chicago or somewhere.

While Dezik, Tsygan and Lisa weren’t the first dog on the moon, they certainly were the first dogs in space. Спасибо, CCCP.

The Beagle has landed.

I see his Camel scarf

Snoopy could say: “First living being on the moon!”But Armstrong also said something else.

The strip (and the ones that follow) commemorates the Apollo 10 lunar orbital mission in May 1969. The crew named their lunar module “Snoopy” and their command module “Charlie Brown.” Snoopy was flown to within 10 miles of the lunar surface.

If any dog can do it, Snoopy can :-)

For the Apollo 10 mission, the Command Service Module callsign was “Charlie Brown” and the Lunar Module callsign was “Snoopy.”

Apollo 10 was referred to as the “dress rehearsal” mission. They undocked in lunar orbit and Snoopy was flown to within a few miles of the lunar surface before rejoining Charlie Brown in orbit for the trip home.

The mission launched in May of ’69 – which is the copywrite year between the panels on this one.

Hound control to Major Thom…

… Take your heartworm pill and put your helmet on…

I bought this figure from Hallmark years ago, was put out to celebrate NASA’s 50th, which would have put it back in ’08 I got it. Have enjoyed this arc for years, especially with what it ended up representing.

Lessee if I can post a link, from back when America still believed in doing great things. (We still are great, but sometimes we forget what we can do, and have done. The Smallest Astronaut ~ The Royal Guardsmen In case the link doesn’t work:

https://youtu.be/2HQNLOp7X5k

The soft communications headgear that all NASA astronauts wore under their helmets were black and white and called “Snoopy caps”. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.37_5528hr.jpg

Cute!

xxx

Cool! Now where did I put that rocket for him to use?