Last I saw of Snoopy was second star from the right and straight on until morning.
Maybe we can get these same folks to locate Zero’s REAL birth certificate.
Since the excerpt gave no info on the topic, this may help:
As part of the mission, Apollo 10’s lunar module ascent stage affectionately called “Snoopy” was discarded and sent into an orbit around the sun. Now, 42 years later, it’s still believed to be out there.
From LP7 |
Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan in the Apollo 10 lunar module "Snoopy" prepare to dock with John Young, who snapped this picture on May 23, 1969. Away only eight hours Stafford and Cernan put the LM into a transfer orbit and descended to 14.4 km above the lunar surface before dropping the landing stage and firing the critical ascent stage six subsequent missions would depend upon to return them to ferry them back the Command Module and eventually to Earth. It was only the second time humans had visited the Moon's vicinity less than two months before Apollo 11. When later Jettisoned, the LM ascent stage engine was ignited remotely, on a trajectory placing the vehicle in orbit around the Sun, where it is presumed to remain to the present day. "Snoopy" is the only intact LM ascent stage remaining of the ten full Apollo lunar landers eventually launched into space [NASA/JSC].
That would be quite a find. Occasionally the spent S-IVB stage from Apollo 12 shows up (denoted as object J002E3). It was supposed to be sent into a solar orbit but a slightly longer than planned ullage burn depleted the propellant left to send it on its way, so it was retained in a highly elliptical, unstable orbit around the Earth, looping far out beyond the moon. It is believed to have left Earth orbit and is now orbiting the Sun as originally planned, but it may be re-captured by the Earth’s gravity as some future time.