{"id":130513,"date":"2021-11-13T02:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-mission-in-one-of-a-kind-spacesuit"},"modified":"2021-11-13T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:24:04","slug":"snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-mission-in-one-of-a-kind-spacesuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-mission-in-one-of-a-kind-spacesuit","title":{"rendered":"Snoopy to fly on NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission in one-of-a-kind spacesuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/snoopy-to-fly-on-nasas-artemis-i-mission-in-one-of-a-kind-spacesuit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intrepid space explorer, who in 1969 became the world\u2019s first beagle to land on the lunar surface \u2014 at least in the Peanuts comic strips drawn by the late Charles M. Schulz \u2014 is set to fly for real aboard NASA\u2019s first Artemis mission in 2022. Snoopy, in plush form, will serve as the \u201czero-g indicator\u201d on the Artemis I Orion spacecraft as it loops around the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Snoopy made a similar journey more than 50 years ago, flying with \u201cCharlie Brown\u201d as the call signs for the lunar and command modules that flew astronauts on a final dress rehearsal before the first moon landing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never forget watching the Apollo 10 mission with my dad, who was so incredibly proud to have his characters participate in making space exploration history,\u201d Craig Schulz, son of cartoonist and producer of \u201cThe Peanuts Movie,\u201d said in a statement. \u201cI know he would be ecstatic to see Snoopy and NASA join together again to push the boundaries of human experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intrepid space explorer, who in 1969 became the world\u2019s first beagle to land on the lunar surface \u2014 at least in the Peanuts comic strips drawn by the late Charles M. Schulz \u2014 is set to fly for real aboard NASA\u2019s first Artemis mission in 2022. Snoopy, in plush form, will serve as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}