Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo 10 Cartoon character Charlie Brown, 1969

Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo 10 Cartoon character Charlie Brown, 1969. This banner is held by astronaut John Young inside the Apollo 10 spacecraft on its way to the Moon. Charlie Brown was the code name for the Apollo 10 Command Module, the Lunar Module was code named Snoopy. Crewed by Young, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan, Apollo 10 successfully completed a lunar orbital mission in May 1969 as the dress rehearsal for the actual Apollo 11 Moon landing, which took place two months later. The Command Module pilot for Apollo 10, Young also flew on the Gemini 3 and Gemini 10 missions, on Apollo 16, becoming the 9th man to walk on the Moon, on the initial test flight of the Space Shuttle SM1 and on Shuttle Mission SM7. ©SSPL/NASA