Snoopy is going to space again! NASA shares BTS video of beagle's new Moon mission
Snoopy is going to space
Snoopy is going to the Moon!
Our beloved beagle will fly beyond the starson his next mission with NASA. One of the most famous cartoon figuresfrom Charles M. Schulz's comic strip 'Peanuts' is travelling to the Earth's natural satellite as part of the Artemis I mission on Orion spacecraft. This will be the first time when the little white dog is going to the Moon.
Snoopy will not be just travelling, he's assigned to the job of zero gravity indicator on the spacecraft, and he will visually indicate when the spaceship has reached the ''weightlessness of microgravity''.
The US space agency made the exciting announcement via a BTS video showing the whole journey of Snoopy fromscratch.
In the video shared on the social media handle of NASA, the engineers, who had workedon Snoopy's project revealed that thespecial costume for the beagle has been madewith the same materials that are used to create the uniform of NASA astronauts.
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''From flying a red doghouse to flying a rocket to the Moon 🚀'' the caption reads.
''Although the #Artemis I mission to the Moon will be uncrewed, there will be a familiar face aboard the Orion spacecraft. Snoopy will be the zero gravity indicator aboard the capsule, which serves a very important purpose: to visually illustrate when the spacecraft has reached the weightlessness of microgravity.''
This is not the first time when Snoopy has comeon board with NASA for a project. The decades-long journey of Snoopy and NASAbegan around 50 years ago in 1969 during the Apollo programme.
''In May 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts Gene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford used the lunar module to skim the Moon’s surface to within 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) and “snoop around” the Apollo 11 landing site. Because of this, the crew named the lunar module “Snoopy” and the Apollo command module was labelled “Charlie Brown,” after Snoopy’s loyal companion,'' the caption reads.
However, Snoopy travelled to space in 1990 for the first time on the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-32 mission.
As an honour to Snoopy, the space agency has created an award named after him, 'Silver Snoopy award' — which isgiven to NASA employees and contractors by astronauts, celebrating achievements related to mission success and human flight safety.
