Omega Speedmaster Professional Snoopy Limited Edition, 3578.51.00

The popularity of Snoopy at the time of the Apollo lunar program was confirmed by the Apollo 10 crew who had named their lunar module after him and their command module after Snoopy’s human pal Charlie Brown. Snoopy was chosen as the watchdog for NASA’s manned flight awareness award as he was a character everybody could associate with. Omega received its Snoopy award on 5^th October 1970 in recognition of the crucial role that’s its Speedmaster Chronograph played on the Apollo 13 mission.

Apollo 13 was to be the third mission to land on the moon, however an explosion in an oxygen tank crippled the spacecraft. The space module had to be powered down and the only functioning timing device on board was the Omega Speedmaster. This was relied on to time the ignition of the rockets to return to Earth and secondly to time the ignition of the rockets to decrease speed and raise the flight path angle for re-entry to the Earth’s atmosphere. This timepiece commemorates the most important contribution to the NASA space program.

Suppled with the original Omega outer boxes, limited edition presentation box with the image of Snoopy – Eyes on the Stars, warranty card, pictogram card, Snoopy Eyes to the Stars fabric badge and Omega certificate of authenticity.