2-D - Unframed (H x W): 53.3 × 40.4cm (1 ft. 9 in. × 1 ft. 3 7/8 in.)
Type:
LITERATURE AND RESEARCH-Posters
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Date:
1968
Summary:
This poster depicts the Apollo spacecraft orbiting the Moon. Its text reads, “Through quality…Many Happy Returns / 1969 - the Year of Apollo,” signifying the success of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. “Snoopy” is at the bottom of the poster.
Cartoonist, Charles, M. Schulz and United Feature Syndicate, distributor of the Peanuts comic strip, agreed to have “Snoopy” be the icon for job safety at NASA. Schulz produced drawings of “Snoopy” to use on posters. Following a tragic fire that killed three Apollo astronauts on January 27, 1967, Albert M. Chop, director of public affairs at the Manned Spacecraft Center, developed the Silver Snoopy Award, and negotiated the use of “Snoopy” with Schulz and United Feature Syndicate.
NASA’s Manned Flight Awareness, a program begun in 1963, and later renamed Space Flight Awareness, created posters to enhance employee motivation for job quality and flight safety within NASA and its contractors.
