Apollo 10’s job was to iron out as many kinks as possible before Apollo 11 attempted an actual landing. This included detailed scouting of Apollo 11’s landing site; testing Snoopy’s descent ...

Johnny Brayson: But somebody came up with the idea of ‘why don’t we do Snoopy?’ And it just so happened that the lunar module of Apollo 10 was nicknamed Snoopy. Its job was to snoop around ...

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 ...