Apollo 10 50th Anniversary Celebration

The Peanuts Global Artist Collective marries the genius of Charles Schulz with the creative imagination of acclaimed contemporary artists. The first public art exhibition comes from the fantastical mind of artist and space buff Kenny Scharf during Space Center Houston's 50th Anniversary of Apollo 10 on April 25.

NASA's Johnson Space Center, in collaboration with Space Center Houston, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10 mission with a day of activities capitalizing on the mission's unique call sign for the Lunar Lander of Snoopy.Apollo 10 was the fourth human mission in the Apollo program, and the second to orbit the Moon. This mission was a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures. The Apollo command module used the call sign of the Peanuts cartoon character Charlie Brown, while the lunar module was named for Snoopy. A

The Anniversary celebration will include the unveiling of a temporary new art installation of an ISS Module wrapped in an original Charlie Brown and Snoopy Motif by artist Kenny Scharf. The public can watch Scharf paint a piece of art live, participate in hands-on Pop-Up Science Labs to learn about how NASA explores the cosmos, and meet Snoopy in-person.

The event kicks off “The Heavens and the Earth” public art project presented by the Houston Arts Alliance, which will bring the iconic characters to sites across Houston in 2019. Houston joins Paris, Seoul, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo and Mexico City in presenting this world-renowned display.