Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 12, 2016

What a smart beagle!

March 14th, 1969. That is the actual date of today’s strip. Which means Apollo IX splashed down on yesterday’s strip.

I knew that

He’ll be back for supper.

Exit, stage left!

Every adventure Snoopy takes, he is world famous. I appreciate all the adventures he takes. Peanuts are a great comic strip to read everyday.

Lol…love it!

And I was on a flight over Florida in 1971 when I saw Apollo 14 being launched. A silver needle atop a huge plume of smoke.

I like that the scarf is waving…in space_____________________________________________

It must be made from the same cloth as Superman’s cape.

Good one, Schulz! So clever with words….

Welcome back, Snoopy!

Is this the only time he flew the doghouse/Sopwith Camel/Spaceship toward the left? It is by my memory. He always typed I’m pretty sure he always faced left when typing.

As long as he’s accelerating, it will ‘stream’ out behind him – and after that until some other movement causes it to go another direction.

Snoopy’s scarf is wired, just like Snoopy…

Snoopy was always being helpful to the reader. Frequently he would start a “beagle doing something or other” premise, and then in the last panel confess “actually beagles hardly ever do whatever.” This one today I’ve remembered for years and years just because it contrasted so sharply with the majesty of his flight to the moon on gossamer doghouse.

Let’s all give Snoopy a huge round of applause.

Mission accomplished!

xxx

Isn’t Schulz dead?

Actually, that may be a portion of the start of the return trip. Or it may not even be all the way to the moon. At it’s closest the moon is 221,500 miles away from the Earth while at it’s furthest the moon is 252,700 miles away. Of course that is just the distance to the moon, it doesn’t include having to slingshot around the moon for the return trip. As Apollo XIII didn’t orbit the moon, but just did a slingshot around it (Apollo VIII, X, XI, XII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII all made a minimum of ten lunar orbits and they were the only other manned missions to reach the moon; though like XIII both VIII and X did not land on the moon). So I’m guessing you have to make at least half the circumference of the moon for a slingshot maneuver, that’s about 3,393 miles. At it’s closest 221,500 miles leaves 18,500 miles of a 240,000 mile journey. 3,393 miles would mean about 15,107 into a return voyage.

Of course if the moon is at it’s furthest then 240,000 miles would mean another 12,700 miles just to reach the moon. But then again even today most of us don’t know how far it is from the Earth to the moon.