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Omega Speedmaster Silver Snoopy Award 50th Anniversary The Silver Snoopy Award — A NASA Legacy on Your Wrist On 17 April 1970, the Apollo 13 crew — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise — splashed down safely after one of NASA’s most perilous missions. The service module’s oxygen tank had ruptured two days earlier, forcing an improvised rescue using the lunar module as a lifeboat. Among the equipment that functioned without failure throughout the crisis was the crew’s Omega Speedmaster — used to time the critical 14-second engine burn that corrected the spacecraft’s trajectory for re-entry. NASA subsequently awarded Omega its Silver Snoopy Award, the agency’s highest commendation for products and services that contribute to flight safety and mission success. Only around 15% of NASA employees are eligible to present the award in any given year. The 50th anniversary of that moment — and of the award — is what this watch commemorates. Released in 2020 to mark five decades since Apollo 13, the 310.32.42.50.02.001 is Omega’s most technically and artistically detailed Speedmaster tribute to date. This 2024 example, in mint condition with OEM bracelet, represents the opportunity to…