What could be better than the first opportunity to see a Snoopy doll that flew into space? How about the chance to see three such dolls, including one that recently returned from a trip around the moon?
On Thursday (July 13), the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California opened "Snoopy in Orbit," a new temporary exhibit featuring never-before-shown space-flown "Peanuts" comic strip artifacts.
"These are really the keystone objects for sharing the story of the ongoing relationship between NASA and Charles Schulz and 'Peanuts,'" said Benjamin Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, in an interview with collectSPACE.com.
The three Snoopy dolls on exhibit flew on three different missions. The oldest, made in 1969, began as Mike Massimino's personal boyhood toy. Forty years later, after he became a NASA astronaut, Massimino took his Snoopy with him on board the space shuttle Atlantis for the last mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Massimino has loaned his Snoopy to the museum for this display.
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