Snoopy Toy Commemorating Apollo 11 Landing on Moon, 1969

Generations of children have proudly sported pictorial lunchboxes of their favorite comic strips and characters since they were first introduced in 1950. The comic strip Peanuts, begun in 1950 by Charles Schultz, shared the adventures of meek and nervous Charlie Brown, his circle of friends, and his dog Snoopy for almost 50 years.

Three weeks after astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, President Kennedy laid out a bold vision that America should commit itself to landing a man on the moon "before the decade is out." Many missions followed until, on July 20, 1969--just six months before the end of the decade--American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. became the first humans to set foot on the moon.

Discover the human factors in space exploration and the ways these are addressed by the spacesuits of Apollo 11 as well as spacesuits in development today and those still to come.

How do you transport and celebrate a pope (and later, Apollo astronauts)? You customize a Lincoln limousine—now in our collections.