Apollo 10’s job was to iron out as many kinks as possible before Apollo 11 attempted an actual landing. This included detailed scouting of Apollo 11’s landing site; testing Snoopy’s descent ...

Audio clip: Charlie Brown was selected by the astronauts as the codename for the Apollo 10 command module and his friend Snoopy was the call sign for the lunar module. Mosher: NASA launched 10 of ...

One example of how massive Peanuts became in the '60s is that NASA named their command and lunar modules after Charlie Brown ...