A while back I posted about
Scott Carpenter making it into a Peanuts cartoon. Later on, during the Apollo program Snoopy became a bit of a mascot - to this day, one of NASA's highest awards is the "Silver Snoopy." And of course the rendezvous ships from Apollo 10 were named Charlie Brown and Snoopy:
The Apollo 10 lunar module was nicknamed "Snoopy" and the command module "Charlie Brown". Schulz also drew some special mission-related artwork for NASA, and several regular strips related to the mission; one showing Snoopy enroute to the moon atop his doghouse with a fishbowl on his head for a space helmet; one where Snoopy is on the moon beating everyone else there, including "that stupid cat that lives next door"; one where Snoopy is returning to Earth, and explains to the audience, "You can tell I'm headed back because I'm pointed the other way"; and one where Charlie Brown consoles Snoopy about how the spacecraft named after him was left in lunar orbit.
I had never heard of the strip Schulz wrote in case the thing went tits-up. That woulda been creepy to read, right? And eerily similar to
Nixon's later "Armstrong/Aldrin stranded on the moon" letter.
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