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Charlie Brown and Snoopy
A sibling set for 2 agents. NASA's official call signs for the two spacecraft of the Apollo 10 mission (May 1969), taken from Charles Schulz's Peanuts and chosen by the astronauts, with the approval of Schulz, who was not sure it was a good idea. NASA's own version of naming the orchestrator after a comic strip. Snoopy scouts the landing site, Charlie Brown waits in orbit as his companion, and Schulz approved, though he was not sure it was a good idea.
- 1Charlie BrownCall sign of the Apollo 10 command/service module, piloted by John Young
- 2SnoopyCall sign of the Apollo 10 lunar module, flown by Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan to within 7.8 nautical miles (14.4 km) of the lunar surface
Order is Snoopy (lunar module, chosen because it would 'snoop' around the landing site) paired with Charlie Brown (command module, Snoopy's companion). Source: Apollo 10 (Wikipedia), linked.