Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 06, 1959
July 05, 1959
July 07, 1959
Transcript:
Charlie Brown is next to a hydrant reading to Shermy. He reads, "This rocket business is fascinating"<br> <br> He continues as they walk pass Snoopy, "Every day they seem to come up with something new"<br> <br> He concludes, "For awhile they were sending up dogs...now they're sending up mice.."<br> <br> Snoopy thinks, "That's a very healthy trend!"<br> <br>
yow4zip Premium Member over 5 years ago
Maybe someday you’ll go to the moon, Snoopy.
Woodstock over 4 years ago
A rare appearance of Shermy…
| over 4 years ago
This was 10 years before the moon landing…
Stormwyrm over 2 years ago
The Soviet Union launched Laika the space dog in 1957, and she completed three orbits before dying after her spacecraft overheated. Mice were actually sent into sub-orbital flight by 1950. Just a bit over a month before this strip, on May 28, 1959, two squirrel monkeys were sent into space and recovered, one of them (Miss Able) died from an unrelated infection a few days after recovery of their space capsule, while the other (Miss Baker) lived long and prospered, passing away in 1984, 25 years after her historic space flight.
Gelonzo 12 months ago
They switched to mice since the incident with a dog fetching the Moon back on Earth. Not to worry, the dog still got assurances he was a “good boy”