NASA ‘Snoopy’ lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned

NASA ‘Snoopy’ lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned into trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions — including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew a lunar module, nicknamed “Snoopy” by the agency, nearly all the way to the Moon during Apollo 10, and then shot the module off into space once they’d completed their task. Apollo 10 was the fourth crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo Program, and it involved flying the lunar module to within 8.5 miles of the Moon’s surface — everything up to the last landing sequence where the module would perform its powered descent.

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