Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 06, 1959
July 05, 1959
July 07, 1959
Transcript:
Charlie Brown is next to a hydrant reading to Shermy. He reads, "This rocket business is fascinating"<br> <br> He continues as they walk pass Snoopy, "Every day they seem to come up with something new"<br> <br> He concludes, "For awhile they were sending up dogs...now they're sending up mice.."<br> <br> Snoopy thinks, "That's a very healthy trend!"<br> <br>
yow4zip Premium Member over 5 years ago
Maybe someday you’ll go to the moon, Snoopy.
Woodstock over 4 years ago
A rare appearance of Shermy…
| over 4 years ago
This was 10 years before the moon landing…
Stormwyrm over 2 years ago
The Soviet Union launched Laika the space dog in 1957, and she completed three orbits before dying after her spacecraft overheated. Mice were actually sent into sub-orbital flight by 1950. Just a bit over a month before this strip, on May 28, 1959, two squirrel monkeys were sent into space and recovered, one of them (Miss Able) died from an unrelated infection a few days after recovery of their space capsule, while the other (Miss Baker) lived long and prospered, passing away in 1984, 25 years after her historic space flight.
Gelonzo about 1 year ago
They switched to mice since the incident with a dog fetching the Moon back on Earth. Not to worry, the dog still got assurances he was a “good boy”