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[b]Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 10 To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA[/b] Just before the first man landed on the moon, Charlie Brown and Snoopy soared through space with NASA's Apollo 10 mission in May 1969. The Charles M. Schulz Museum is celebrating the 40th anniversary of this historic space flight with its newest exhibition, [i]To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA,[/i] running January 31 through July 20, 2009. This exhibition explores the Apollo 10 flight and the Peanuts characters' role in that flight and NASA's safety campaign. It will feature a one-third scale model of the Apollo command module from the Johnson Space Center, an Apollo-era flight suit, the actual image of Charlie Brown that was flown aboard Apollo 10, and a special children's area for creative play. As the decade of the 1960s was coming to a close, America, along with the rest of the world, waited with great anticipation to see if NASA could achieve President John F. Kennedy's challenge from 1961 to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The astronauts of Apollo 10 -- Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene A. Cernan -- nicknamed their command and lunar modules "Charlie Brown" and "Snoopy," respectively, and carried sketches of the duo aboard their space craft. Stafford and Cernan piloted "Snoopy" within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface as they scouted the landing area for the Apollo 11 mission, scheduled for July 1969.
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