[1] https://www.chrono24.com/omega/omega-speedmaster-silver-snoo...
https://www.chrono24.com/search/index.htm?dosearch=true&quer...
Aren't they both basically brands owned by the same corporation (The Swatch Group)?
I have been on a team that won a silver Snoopy but was a subcontractor and didn't get one myself; just the Boeing employees I worked with did. Every once in a while I Google them on the off chance I could get one as a piece of memoribilia, but they are thousands of dollars.
I find it interesting that "has flown in space" is presented here almost like a property of the material and not as history of the individual pins.
Are the pins passed on from past recipients to new ones, so the time in space was during the previous wearer's mission? Or are there ISS missions that just carry a box of not yet awarded pins with them but will not do anything with the box, just so it gains its flown-in-space-ness?
http://spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_silver_snoopy_awards.ht...
seems like in the apollo era crew carried a few in their PPK (personal preference kit), and in the later shuttle era they regularly carried 500-1000 pins per mission.
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Another question in my head is whether they had to license Snoopy from the estate of Schulz (or whoever holds the rights the Peanuts gang).
ETA that unsnap_biceps just answered my questions.
NhanH•3mo ago
Though I don't think I will be able to cite an official document stating Al Chop is a Snoopy fan :-), so there's that.
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by Thom Marshall, Houston Chronicle, January 7, 2000
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“ The command module was given the call sign "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module the call sign "Snoopy". These were taken from the characters in the comic strip, Peanuts, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy.These names were chosen by the astronauts with the approval of Charles Schulz, the strip's creator,who was uncertain it was a good idea, since Charlie Brown was always a failure. The choice of names was deemed undignified by some at NASA…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10#:~:text=The%20comman...