When NASA astronauts want to honor someone who helped keep them alive, they hand out a silver pin depicting Snoopy in a spacesuit. The Silver Snoopy Award is one of the space agency’s highest honors, and each sterling silver pin has flown in space before being presented.
Following the deadly Apollo 1 fire in 1967, NASA wante…
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