The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s historic mission two months later. Stafford and Gene Cernan took the lunar lander nicknamed Snoopy within 9 miles (14 kilometers) ...

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 ...

NASA even named the two modules of the Apollo 10 spacecraft after Peanuts characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy. The craft flew on a mission to orbit the moon in 1969. Benjamin Clark, curator of the ...