{"id":1803,"date":"2013-11-20T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T03:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/20\/upcountry-history-museum-presents-to-the-moon-snoopy-soars-with-nasa\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:34:15","slug":"upcountry-history-museum-presents-to-the-moon-snoopy-soars-with-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/upcountry-history-museum-presents-to-the-moon-snoopy-soars-with-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcountry History Museum Presents: &#8220;To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/snoopy-568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9206 lazyload\" alt=\"snoopy 568\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/snoopy-568-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/204;\" \/><\/a>An exhibit commemorating NASA\u2019s Apollo 10 mission and the role of Charles M. Schulz\u2019s Peanuts characters is on display now through Dec. 29 at the Upcountry History Museum\u2013Furman University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA\u201d looks at the 1969 Apollo 10 mission and how the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy were used in the mission and in the NASA Manned Flight Awareness safety program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA\u201d is organized and toured by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center of Santa Rosa, Calif.\u00a0 The exhibit is sponsored locally by The Graham Foundation and The Greenville News.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the first man landed on the moon, Peanuts characters soared through space with NASA\u2019s Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 after the crew chose to nickname their command and lunar modules Charlie Brown and Snoopy, respectively. Apollo 10 was the \u201cdress rehearsal\u201d for the lunar landing that was scheduled for July 1969. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan piloted \u201cSnoopy\u201d within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface as they scouted the landing area for Apollo 11, while John Young orbited the moon in command module \u201cCharlie Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charles Schulz\u2019s involvement with NASA started a year earlier than the 1969 flight of Apollo 10 when NASA requested to use Snoopy as their safety mascot. The Silver Snoopy Award program was instituted to improve the safety record of NASA employees and contractors\u2014a program that proved to be a huge success. More than 40 years later, Snoopy remains in his role as NASA\u2019s safety mascot.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cTo the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA,\u201d visitors will see Snoopy\u2019s trip to the moon in the March 1969 Peanuts comic strip series, learn about NASA\u2019s Silver Snoopy Award program, and view a Silver Snoopy pin that was flown to the moon. The exhibit also contains a children\u2019s creative play space where children can dress up like an astronaut, or have their photograph taken in a life-size Apollo 10 astronaut suit standee.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Upcountry History Museum \u2013 Furman University 864-467-3100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibit commemorating NASA\u2019s Apollo 10 mission and the role of Charles M. Schulz\u2019s Peanuts characters is on display now through Dec. 29 at the Upcountry History Museum\u2013Furman University.\u00a0\u201cTo the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA\u201d looks at the 1969 Apollo 10 mission and how the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy were used in the mission and in the NASA Manned Flight Awareness safety program.\u00a0For more information, contact the Upcountry History Museum \u2013 Furman University 864-467-3100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}